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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-04
HOUSEHOLD
QUESTIONS

Store seeds in a cool place if
they reach you too early. They
keep better than in a warm room.
Rice should always be washed
before cooking: Use cold water
and change it two or three times
until the water is clear.
Try baking apples in a double
rooster with one cup of water for
half dozen peeled apples. They
are much more juicy than when
baked in pan without a cover.
When door handles become
loose, it is usually because the
screw holes have become larger
and the screws do not hold. Get
screws a size larger and the
trouble will be remedied.
A rubber soap-diSh makes a
non-skid bird bath for the canary.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-04
AGRICULTURE:
Cotton Woe

Last winter the U. S. saw a ray
of hope in it's cotton problem. The
1899 crop of 11,500,000 bales was
100000 bales short of domestic and
export demand. Thus supplies in
storage under loans were withdrawn
to supply the market. Meanwhile
Great Britain took 1926, 900 bales
in the seven months ending March
l, compared with only 100000 bales
in the same period year earlier.
Then came the blow. At Wash
ington, British trade officials an
nounced that United Kingdom pur-
chases of American cotton must be
curtailed to save foreign exchange.
A second reason is that British cot
ton ships have frequently come to
the U. S. empty; by turning to South
America for cotton the British hope
to fill their ships with English-made
goods which can be sold to pay for
the cotton.
Unhappy, agriculture department
officials predicted the U. S. would
again be asked to advance large
loans on unmarketable SURPRISES.
Also received was talk of new
export subsidy program next fall.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-04
JAPAN:
Ewes abroad

For the nonce Japan's problems
in China were settled. Gen. Chang
Kai-shek still had 100000 men in
the field but Nippon had made con-
siderable progress. Puppet Wang
Ching-wei planned to establish his
Tokyo-dominated government at
Marking about the first of April,
bigheartedly granting autonomy"
to vast and rich north China which
thus came closer within Japan's
own orbit.
With these troubles resolved,
Tokyo began watching the interna-
tional situation. For two successive
days the diet fired difficult questions
at Premier Mitsumasa Yonai and
his cabinet, yet each time the canny
ministers Tended them off like sea-
soned diplomats.
Once, a member asked Foreign
Minister Hachiro Arita whether
Japan shouldn't take some positive
role in supporting Germany and
Italy. Answered Arita: Japan al
ready knows how the European war
will end, but the matter is too deli
cate to talk about.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-04
Hold That Man!

q 1t really isn't the task it might
seem, this holding" your hus-
band, according to Kathleen Nor
ris.
q The main reason that men
seek "the other woman" is that
wives become so tied up with
home and household duties that
they forget friend husband. And
if they do remember him they
take time to live only ''half a
life" with him.
q But if the wife finds herself
really neglected because some
"charmer" has led her husband
astray, she has two avenues of
escape.
q First she can ignore and for
get all about this phase of her
husbands life, that is, let him
60 his way and wake up for him
self some day, or she can go
with him on his pleasure trips
and throw herself into the spirit
Of things. This usually shows the
erring husband that ''the little
wife" can be just as charming as
anyone else.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-04

The Allies. Premier Paul Rey-
maud, appointed when Edouard
Daladier's French cabinet resigned,
got off to a humble start when the
chamber of deputies gave him only
a one vote majority in the first
ballot. Later, when Reynaud stuck
out his chin and announced his de-
termination to fight the wars both
at home and on the western front,
the chamber increased its majority
to II.
Frances political crisis had ap-
parently passed, but Britain's was
just beginning to brew. Nobody
knew who would be busted, but it
was virtual certainty that Prime
Minister Neville Chamberlain would
reorganiZe his cabinet to include
few Laborites.
The Dictators. Turkey, only Bal
kan friend of the allies, was busy
trying to patch up an agreement
between London, Paris and Moscow,
thus staving off a threatened expan-
sion of hostilities into the near east.
But the dictators, apparently bent
on making the Balkans benevolently
neutral, were playing every card in
their deck.
Germany, with the most to gain,
worked for "reapproachement" be-
tween Italy and Russia. Meanwhile
she also pressed new demands on
Rumania, chiefly concerning speed
Ter oil and agricultural production.
There was every reason to believe
combined Russian-German pressure
made Rumania the next Finland"
given her choice between capitulat-
ing or being beaten to death.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-04

At Los Angeles, pretty, 17-year-
old Joan Aveline Lawrence COM
planned because she thought mass
bathing in her high school gymna-
SUM shower room was Immoral"
Next day the schools attorney an
nounced a private shower room
would be arranged.
q Into effect on eastern railroads
went new low 2 cents-a-mile one
way coach rates with round-trip re-
auctions. Meanwhile major bus
lines cut their rates to keep pace,
some as much as 80 per cent.
q At Disney, Okla, gates on the
federal Grand River dam changed
shut and water began rising in a
52,000-acre reservoir which Gov.
Leon c. Phillips charged would
cause $889,000 damage to state
owned property. But federal court
ruled against his protest.
q At St. Louis, Circuit Court Judge
Thomas Rowe took under advise
ment a contempt citation against
the Posi-Dispatch and three staff
members whose editorials and car
ICONS criticized the dismissal in
Judge Rowe's court of defendants in
an extortion case.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-04
DEFENSE:
WarpLar,e Tempest

Ever since World War II began
last fall isolationists have argued
that sale of U. S. warplanes abroad
is CD blocking expansion of our own
airforce; (2) exposing U. S. mill
tary secrets to the highest bidder;
(3) boosting aircraft prices because
of the rush of foreign orders.
By late March this tempest
seemed headed for a showdown.
Both house and senate military af-
fairs committees planned hearings
on the subject. President Roosevelt
injected his two-bits worth by de-
bunking the military secrets charge.
He advocated mass sale of u. S.
planes abroad to build up produc-
ton channels. Next day an allied
purchasing commission offered to
place billion-dollar plane order if
secret mechanism were included.
Shortly thereafter the war depart
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-04
DIPLOMACY:
Jin,my's Trouble

Washington insiders believe Jim.
my Cromwell got his job as U. S.
minister to Canada because his
wife, Doris Duke, richest girl in
the world" gave literally to the
New Deal war chest. In mid-March
Husband Cromwell got in hot water
by warning that chaos would follow
German victory. While Secretary
of State Cordeu Hull reprimanded
him, insiders rumored Jimmy would
resign to "save face"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-04

You 60 out to Billy Carey's in body,
but not in spirit. You watch Ted,
rather than watching yourself. You
secretly wish that you were back at
home, where everything is comfort
able, and you and Mother and Ann
have so harmonious a time.
Now, you'll have to make up your
mind to do one thing or another.
One way would be to abandon all
thought of Ted and his friends, as
far as you are personally concerned.
Rejoice that he has good times with
them, and devote yourself complete
ly to Ann and your mother-and,
above all, to yourself. Get some
simple, becoming frocks, do your
hair a new way, read along some
directed line of study or take up a
language; develop your own person.
atty so that everyone, and Ted in
cluded, will notice change in you.
A Frightening and quickening; a
new interest in life and a new con-
tent. In other words, don't be nerv-
Gus, suspicious, sensitive, injured
shadow Of Ted. Be person your
self. That's the way you won him,
and that's the way you'll win him
back.
The second course, and to me the
wiser one, would be to suggest to
Ted some day that you go with him
when he leaves on Saturday or Sum-
day. Go to Billy's, or wherever
else he goes, and instead of sitting
mute and unhappy and ignored in a
corner, pick out some one person in
the group to whom to pay special
attention. Be sure it is a neglected
person. Find a game you two like
to play. Or, if it is Billy's mother,
who is getting lunch ready for the
crowd, just make yourself quietly
useful, draw her into talk with you;
forget yourself, and especially for
get Ted, as much as you can.
A New Course.
Some years ago quiet little neg
lected wife on noisy house party
entered into conversation with the
12-year-old son of the house, who
was equally overlooked. He had
been given a rather elaborate game
that he didn't understand; she got
him to bring it down, and studied
the rules with him. Presently they
began playing it, and a casual on
locker joined them. The onlooker
was the Ted type, and presently the
group was gathered about watching.
1t wasn't much, but it carried the
mousey wife through one evening.
She and the boy had planned a
picnic for the next day. Lonely
and shy, he was wild with excite
ment over the idea of a beach lunch,
a fire, chops to be broiled. One or
two other guests asked if they might
go; in the end they all went, and
the quiet little woman managed the
whole thing and gave orders and for
got that she had ever been anything
but the ringleader. This was the end
of her "mousey" career.
Driving home her husband said
that he didn't know why, but he
hadn't had as much fun as usual.
And the little woman smiled myste-
riously, and realized that she had
learned something. Learned that by
thinking Of others and forgetting
herself she never could have any,
thing except a good time. To pick
the most popular man or woman in
a group, and hang about that per-
son, and perhaps try to rival or i'm
itate that person, is always waste
of time, and may result in the lose
Of what little power you have. E
yourself and watch the results.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-04
COMMUNICATIONS:
HLnoc
Chaos

Teletypes pounded out gibberish;
Easter kilograms were delayed and
radio stations found their transmits
sion distance cut to so miles or less.
European cables were completely
"out" and long distance telephones
barked with static. Such were the
manifestations of Mother Earth's
worst electrical bombardment since
1907, when the U. S. was isolated
from Europe three hours. Studying
the phenomenon, astronomers fig
ured a solar cyclone had created a
gigantic sun spot, many times
larger than the earth. Much strong
er (about 500 volts) than normal
transmission power (160 volts), the
bombardment came into conflict
with normal directions of the earth's
own electric currents. Result:
Torpnorarv chaOc
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-04
POLITICS.:
FarIey's Inning

Most important political an
nouncement of the year was Post
master General Jim Farley's state
ment in Boston that his name would
go before the Democratic national
convention this year-"and that's
that" Overnight observers began
testing Farley's strength, wondering
if he could be President or second
mate. They forecast a positive con-
vention breach between Farley and
President Roosevelt; either third
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-04
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH ". LaBINE
Congress Flees New Tax Issue
After Boosting Farm Budget;
Look Generously at Treasury

EDITORS NoTEWhen opinions they
wspaper Union
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-04
Mothers Hone

Youth fades; love droops; the
leaves of friendship fall; a moth
er's secret hope outlives them all.
Holmes.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-04

Nina-You were seen with Mr. x
on the night of the storm. His wife
knows everything. See page l9 Of
the May True Story Magazine, now
on sale.-Adv.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-04
EUROPE:
lawmakers

Late March found neither Euro
pean belligerent paying much atten-
ton to actual warfare. The terrific
North sea aerial attacks of a week
earlier had settled into an allied
blockade of Scandinavian shores,
aimed at stopping shipments to Ger
many in spite of Norwegian and
Swedish neutrality protests. Britain
and France were busy setting their
houses in order. The dictators were
busy making hay in the Balkans.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-04

the tiHle may come
the ogre of too much spending ap-
peared simultaneously before con-
gress and Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau. Anxious to
spend, but not anxious to raise the
debt limit or levy new taxes in an
election year, many a legislator
turned covetous eyes on the treas
ury's SURPRISES.
One possibility was the $2,0O0,000,-
600 currency Sterilization fund.
Hearing about this, Treasurer Nor
genthau protested: &c. the time
may come when we will get down
on our knees and give thanks that
it's still there"
Another possibility was to take
the $300,000,000 farm bill increase
out of the treasury's working bal
ance. Treasurer Morgenthau shud-
dered at this, pointing out that the
working balance by next June will
be only $5O0,OO0,OOO.
Frankly worried, Treasurer Nor
genthau protested again when con-
gressmen limited that the 31.2 per
cent gain in income tax collections
might preclude new taxes. Next
day, showing that he was disguised
with the nations fiscal carelessness,
he ordered that baby bonds could
henceforth be sold only to private
individuals. Reason: To hold sales
at a minimum, thus keeping the
debt from mounting too rapidly.
While Treasurer Morgenthau
sweated, the senate, which had
wreaked all this havoc, began dis
cussing the reciprocal trade treaty
bill and headed for a close vote.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-04
Rule Oneself

Rule Oneself
To rule oneself is IN reality the
greatest triumph.-Sir J. Lub-
book.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-04
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
(Ben syndicate-wNU service)

"A HEN a woman of 81, mar
wv ried eight years and mother
W of small daughter, begins
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-04
MISCELLANY:
Immoral Bath

,mpOrary cha
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-06-06
MILAN NEWS

Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Milan have
gone to Oregon where they ex-
pect to make their. home.
Clifford Milan, of Oregon, has
been visiting home folks for some
time.
Walter Combs made a business
trip to Washington and Pennsyl-
vania recently.
Mr.. R. L. Perkins, who has
been sick for some time, isn't i'm
proving very fast.
There is prayer meeting at VAL
ley Home Baptist church every
Sunday night. Every one is in
vited to attend.
Mr.. Tom Eller, Walter Combs
and Misses Margaret and Thel-
ma Sturgill were visitors in Hick-
DRY and Lenoir last week.
The small son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Willard Lewis was hurt badly
last week when kicked by horse.
Mr.. w. J. Combs has been Wis
iting MIR. and Mrs. Tom Eller, of
Creston.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-06-06

Party, after a pleasant call at the
White House, said that he was
sure all Republicans would be
good patriots and do whatever
they could to help the defense
program, and let it go at that.
Much attention is being given
here to former President Hoover's
letter to Senator Tobey, written
last September when the war
started and the first talk of a
coalition government" began. AT
ter pointing out that members of
the Opposition Party if appointed
to the Cabinet would not in any
way be representative of their
party, but merely individuals, Mr..
Hoover said that the proposed
suspension of partisan politics
would mean one-party govern
ment. It would be the start of to-
talitarian government"
He urged then, and has since
urged, that Republicans give ev-
cry possible support to sound
policy of national defense, but
should not cease to debate the
best methods of keeping this
country out of war.
Offense Planning Board
While aircraft manufacturers,
makers of military equipment of
all kinds, every sort of indus
trialist or business man who
might be called upon to help in
the defense preparations, have
signified their willingness and
readiness to help, there is a great
deal of reluctance among bust
ness leaders to place themselves
under political or bureaucratic or
ders as to methods of operation.
Therefore, the idea of defense
planning board composed of mill
tary men, industrialists and mem
bers of both houses of Congress,
is getting serious consideration.
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Silas Creek News

Mr.. and Mrs. Zeb Dickson, of
Wilkesboro, and Mr.. and Mrs. j.
r. Phipps and their daughter, Ro-
berthe, spent Sunday with Mr..
and Mrs. c.. M. Dickson.
Work is being continued on the
Baldwin church. The larger part
of sand and rock is on the ground
andtpouring of cement will be be-
gun at once.
Mrs. W. w. Dickson is visiting
her son at Winston-Salem this
week.
Splendid progress is being made
on the Old Field Creek and Hell
ton roads respectively. The state
forces have recently been blast
ing rock beds on the Helton Hill.
w. o. Dickson spent the week
end with his sister, Mrs. E. o.
Young, of Rugby, Virginia.
Quite a number of our citizens
went to West Jefferson last week
and then went with the Wind"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-06-06

State College specialists recon-
mend the following good farm
practices for the month of June:
Earl Hostetler, professor of ami
NAL husbandry, says the farmer
who grows beef cattle, sheep and
swine gets a breathing spell dur
ing June. The sheep and beef
cattle should be on pasture, and,
except for salt and water, will
need little attention. If sheep are
on permanent pasture, it will be
necessary to drench the animals
periodically to control stomach
worms.
While the livestock man can
take it easy Roy Dearstyne, head
of the college poultry depart
ment, says hot weather only adds
to the problem of the poultry
man. Not only is this true with
young birds, but the mature flock
as we'll. He points out that most
of the early-hatched pullets are
ready for vaccination against
chicken pox if this has not al
ready been done. Then, the poul-
tryman should watch for over
crowding at this period. Other
factors in producing healthy
strong pullets are: feeding we'll
balanced diet, constructing sum-
mer range shelters, checking for
internal parasites and providing
plenty of watering places and
shade.
Enos Blair, Extension Service
agronomist, passes along few
hints on harvesting small grain
this month. He says the grain
should be harvested when dry
and shocks so built as to with
stand wind and ''shed" rain. Much
grain is lost each year because ii
was cut when too wet or checked
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-06-06
NOTICE OF SALE

Under and by virtue of an or
der of the superior court of Ashe
County, made in the special pro-
ceeding entitled Edward Osborne
Administrator of J. w. Thompson
Deceased, VS. Theodore Rotten and
wife Thelma Rotten, by her Guar
dian AID Litem, L. P. Coward,
upon the special proceeding dock
ct of said court, the undersigned
commissioner will, on the 9Th day
of July, 1910, at loo o'clock P.
NJ, at and on the premises of said
lands, at the home place of the
late J. w. Thompson, on Rich
Hill Creek, Ashe County, North
Carolina, offer for sale to the
highest bidder for cash that GER
tain tract of land lying and being
in Clifton Township, Ashe Coun-
ty, North Carolina, adjoining the
lands of Edward Osborne and 9TH
ers, and more particularly des-
cribed as follows, to wit:
First tract, bounded on the
South by Edward Osborne, on the
West by the lands of Oliver, on
the North by David GRAPHICAL and
Oliver lands, on the East by S. A
Hartsoe and Arthur Brown lands
Second tract, bounded on the
South by the lands of the John
Jones heirs and Jim Jones, on the
West by John Jones heirs anc
Rufus GRAPHICAL, on the North by
the Oliver and GRAPHICAL lands
and on the East by the Oliver anc
GRAPHICAL lands. And reference i!
hereby made to the title deed:
of the Ashe County Registry fol
more complete description of both
of said tracts of land.
This 3rd day of June, 1910.
EDWARD OSBORNE,
6-6-4t Commissioner.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-06-06
NO. 1879
NORTH CAROLINA
ASHE COUNTY

ASHE COUNTY
Mrs. Cora A. Humphrey, of
Ashe County, North Carolina, en-
tiers and lays claim to the follow
ing described piece or parcel of
land in Creston Township, Ashe
County, State of North Carolina,
the same being vacant and unap-
propriated land, and subject to
entry viz:
Beginning at birch on top of
the Big Knob, the Goss = corner
and running southwestward with
the Harris line to a stake on the
Knob; the Eli Brown, Grant cor
ner; thence east with said Grant
line about 80 poles to said Grant
line; thence northWard to Cora
Humphrey line; thence with said
line to the beginning, and con-
tanning six acres, more or less.
This being all the vacant and I'M
appropriated land lying between
said lines.
Containing by estimation 6 &C.
res.
Entered this 18th day of May,
1910.
at 11:30 o'clock A. M.
MRS. CORA A. HUMPHREY
L. P. Coward,
Elk. Officio Entry Taker.
BY EDNA MAY,
5-16-4t Deputy.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-06-06

NORTH CAROLINA
ASHE COUNTY
IN THE MATTER OF MRS.
MAGGIE ELLER, Executrix of
the Estate of FELIX ELLER, De-
ceased
Having qualified as Executrix
of the last will and testament of
Felix Eller, deceased, this is to
notify all parties who have. claims
against the estate to present them
on or before the End day Of May,
1941, or this notice will"be plead
in bar of their right to recover.
This April q, 1910.
MAGGIE ELLER,
5-2-6t Executrix.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-06-06
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
BEFORE THE CLERK

BEEOIE HE NAEnN
NORTH CAROLINA
ASHE COUNTY
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-
TATE OF HENRY SHATLEY,
DECEASED, BY THOS. > SHAT
LEY, EXECUTOR a.
Having qualified as executor OF
Henry Shatley, deceased, late of
Ashe County, North Carolina, this
is to notify all parties who have
claims against the estate to pre-
sent the same on or before the
9th day of May, 1941, Or this no.
tice will be plead in bar of their
right to recover; all parties who
are indebted to said estate will
please come forward and: make
immediate settlement. ;
This May 3rd, 1910.
THOMAS SHATLEY,
5-9-6tp Executor
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-06-06

WANTED: ANGELICA, Balmony,
Burdock, Beeswax, Catnip, Elder
Flowers, Unison, Liverwort, Lo-
bella, Peppermint Yellow Dock,
Sassafras, Wild Cherry, and 9TH
er Roots & Herbs. If you wish to
sell us your 1910 collections ask
for our big new price list which
will soon be ready for distribu-
ton to our regular customers. We
pay SPOT CASH. Lansing Pro-
duce Co., Lansing, N. c. 6-6-1tp