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WELLINGTON
Atems of Personal and Social In.
terest Cleaned From the Vicinity

Millington, Feb. 21 - Mr.. Jeffries
of Chintoteague, Va, is i'll at the
home of his daughter and son-in-
law, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry r. Rasin.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kesler, of Harring-
ton, Del, and Miss Helen Peterson,
of New York, were recent guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles p. Jones.
Mr.. and Mrs. Claude Shivery en-
tertained, at Valentine party the
following guests: Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Anthony, Mr.. and Mrs. Ar
thur Anthony, Mr.. and Mrs. War
ner Porter, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Fellows, Mrs. Ethel Powell and
Miss Ethel Jones.
Mrs. John l.. Smith entertained
at dinner last Thursday, Lewis S.
Price, her brother and daughter,
Mr.. and Mrs. Stuart NJ. Price, Miss
Mary Stevens and Mrs. Ralph III.
Usilton and son.
Miss Evelyn Cochran is greatly
improved in health and Is able to be
Dul q > slaH.
Mrs. Jennie Price, of Warwick,
was a guest one day last week of
Mrs. Ethel Moffett.
lanes Pippin, of MacDonough
School, spent last weekend at the
home of his brother, William Pip
pin.
The Ia roe hriclx building IN Vast
Cypress street, known as the DIR.
ELsin property which has been va
cant for a number of years has
been purchased by Miss Collins, of
over, Del, who is having it recon-
toned and will soon have it ready
for occupancy. 1t Is reported she
Will occupy it herself.
4-r. and Mrs. James F. Everett
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nARTLY
Items of Personal and Social In
terest Cleaned From the Vicinity

terest Cleaned From the Vicinity
Hartly, Feb. 81 - Mr.. and Mrs.
Emerson Daily and Miss Elva Tay-
lor spent last Wednesday in Will
mington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Taylor, of
FELTON,, visited their parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Samuel Carrow recently.
Friends of Fred Schweitzer are
glad to hear that he is home after
being in the hospital for SO long.
Mr.. and Mrs. Maxwell Davis re-
Gently entertained Miss Blanche
Davis and Miss Ruby Roe, of Sea-
ford.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Hurd and
family spent a day with their moth
er, Mrs. Elizabeth Hutchins recent
ly.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Williams,
Of New Jersey, spent a few days
last week with Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Williams.
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TOWNSEND

Items of Personal and Social Inter.
est Cleaned About Neighborhood
Townsend, Feb. 21-Mr. Calvin
Outten has returned after a viist at
the home of his sister, Mrs. Lula
May Baughman, of Malvern, Pa
Mr.. and Mrs Clarence Scarbor-
ough, of Wilmington, and Mr. and
Mrs. Robinson, of Philadelphia, Pa
visited Mrs. Mary Jones last Sun
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CLAYTON NEWS
AND PERSONALS
Budget of Items From Our
Railroad Town and Their
Personal Mention
CHURCHES AND SCHOOL

Trinity Episcopal Church, Rev
Frederick Marx Barton, minister il
charge, announces the service or
Sunday next will be at 8 p. M, ev'
ening prayer and sermon.
A birthday dinner was given il
honor of Mrs. Clarinda Tweddle's
Goth birthday which she will cele-
brate February 22nd. Among the
out of town guests were Mr.. ano
Mrs. c. E. Lynn, Mrs. Annie Camp
bell, of Wilmington; Master Thorn
as E. Horn, of this town; Mrs. An
ma Unsworth, of Wilmington. A
fine time was had by all.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Shane and
daughter Thelma, spent Sunday in
Wilmington, the guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. Lewis Walker, Jr., and Mrs.
Florence Walker and daughter
Mary Frances.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Graham of
Kenton, spent Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. William T. Argo and Rev.
Mabel Erskine.
Mr.. I. G. Purse spent Monday in
Wilmington
Miss Rose Clayville, Miss Eunice
Sparks, Mr.. William Sparks,
and Robert Sparks spent Saturday
In Wilmington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lambert Argo and
daughter are spending several days
in Wilmington
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Montague and
children spent Sunday in Dover, the
guests Of Mrs. Montague's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Lynch.
Mr.. Raymond Harper, Jr., of Bal
timore, Nd, was a weekend guest
Of Miss Elizabeth Hill.
Mr.. Paul Coverdale spent Mon
day in Wilmington
Mrs. Eta Cats has returned to
her home in Millington, Md, after
spending sometime with her sister,
Mrs. Charles Reese. =.
Mr.. James Boggs and son, j. M.
Boggs and Mr.. Joseph Hazel spent
Friday in Dover with Mrs. Mary
Coy.
Miss Elva Waters spent Satur-
day in Wilmington.
Mr.. James Boggs spent last
weekend with his daughter, Mrs.
Harry Atkinson at Cape Charles,
Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Clayville and
son Charles, of Delaware City have
returned home after spending some
time in Florida.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Davidson of
Milford, spent Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. Jack Poore.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Boggs spent
Wednesday afternoon in Dover.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Mckee and
son Billy, of Dover, were guests on
Sunday of Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph
Carrow and son Billy.
Mrs. Jack Poore and children
Doris Marie and Jackie, spent Fri
day in Wilmington.
MI. anu OO1llI ISclALbO SPCAe
Sunday at Harrington.
Mr.. Harry c. Johnson spent Sun
day at Delmar.
Mr.. Frank Carrow of near town,
spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs.
Ralph Carrow.
Mr.. and Mrs. William j. Law
renee of Wilmington, spent last
Tuesday with their daughter, Mrs.
Harold j. Wiley.
Misses Margaret and Agnes Con-
away of Townsend, spent the week
end with their aunt and uncle, Mr..
and Mrs. Harold ]. Wiley and son.
Mrs. Paul Spencer and children,
spent Saturday in Dover, the guest
of her mother, Mrs. Conner.
Mr.. Walter Hill and Mr.. Dudley
Kemp spent Tuesday in Whining
ton
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ODESSA

Items of Personal and Social Inter
est Cleaned About Neiphborhuod
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day. ~
Miss Etba, 4
spent the veal, a'lo ot r,1
Mrs Clifton o. a,eld Wit i
Mr.. WaIter ,'lloit = ot CAN. /
Nd. is spendiDp p'.' q Sasl
father, Mr.. JOIN : q aas q
send. 'l DaNd !, /
Mr.. Richard Hos,..
her son, Mr.. Revrnlsss wy 1ss'a is j
family in Manssalal .lol's HN1
CONTINUED ., ,. Oulo
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-02-22

Tomato to its population, they
would have had SIX HUNDRED
AND SIXTY-SIX deaths from
diphtheria instead of their twen-
ty-six.
Why should we have this diff
ference! Living conditions are
worse in some quarters of New
York city than any that can be
found in Ashe. In New York
there are more people who can
not read and write. Many of them
do not even understand the Eng
lish language, much less read it,
and yet they have succeeded in
giving their children protection
from a disease that is all too
common among us, an English
speaking and reading people who
certainly should be more adj
vanced in our knowledge and
practices than such a conglome-
rate group.
Medical science has learned to
protect our children from diph-
liberia and your family physician
can, after your baby is six
months old, protect it from this
dreadful disease, or it can be
given at the Health Office or any
of the clinics held at various
times and places. Do not wait un-
til you are forced to call for help
some bad night when no phone
may be near or doctor available,
but act now and let us make the
record of Ashe County even
cleaner than that of our largest
city.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-02-22

Due to the fact death rate in the
want Burial Association during the past year was
only approximately five people thousand members inc
was setting aside as an aooOn
surplus than $11 10000.
But there truth outstandingly ev1dent-Ine Fact
sares us in the that death rate never increased
hevond this people per 1000 members 1t would mean mat
every member this organization would 1--we 70 De an aver
age of Of and would pay INTO tne
association average of twOhundred years eacn ut the
Reins Sturdvant Burial Association Inc operated in &C
cordance with suggestions of the Insurance Commls-
sioner of North Carolina IS based on sOund
business principles Its officers and its directors know t*
the inevitable death rate shall increase to tgure lar De-
yOnd evident and rather than assess you and
the of your family additional assessments
your age, when you ill., and probably unable
to pay they feel that they wise in making DOUBLE
ASSESSMENTS setting aside the funds to pay those
future claims rather than to merely meet expenses now and
in the future be forced to TRIPLE ASSESSMENTS
or even QUADRUPLE ASSESSMENTS, i'm order that $780,
90 may in the treasury for your claim
There may be people in your community who would
tell you that it possible to operate burial association at
onehalf the price which operated, and remain
possible pay claims and without making additional
But figures do not indicate we have
computed below the amount will into this
burial association providing live to be eighty years old
join at the Of you Will pay 1Oc quar-
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-02-22
Wilkes County
Lawyer May Run
For Governor
Robert Ell. Mcneil Seriously
Considering Entering The
Republican Primary.

North Wilkesboro, Feb. 49,
Robert H. McNeill, prominent at
torney and veteran Republican
campaigner, stated last week that
he was onsidering seriously the
thought of becoming a candidate
for the governorship in the forth
coming Republican primary.
However, he said, he will make
no definite announcement on the
matter until he has had an op-
portunity to think it over thor
oughly in the light of further ex-
pressions of sentiment from Re-
publicsns throughout the state.
He is a native of Wilkes and
has many friends and relatives
here who are interested in his
proposed candidacy.
McNeill, who attended the con-
vention of North Carolina Young
Republicans and the Lincoln Day
dinner in Greensboro last week
stated that during all of Monday
morning and evening I was deep
ly gratified to be urged to enter
the Republican primary as a
candidate for governor"
my friends with whom I have
rendered party service for 40
years, and many of the young
men and women, including col
lege and university groups, join
ing in, urging me to make the
race. These men and women who
so honored me literally, came
from Beaufort to Marshall, and
from jefferson to the South
Carolina line.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-02-22
TROUT SCHOOL NEWS

The following honor roll has
been announced for the Trout
school for the sixth month:
Seventh grade-Wade Miller,
Hansel Latham.
Sixth grade-Ruth Oliver, De-
wey Miller, Ruby and Earline
Rash.
Third grade-Roy and Pauline
Latham, Bill Perkins, Lorenna
and Ella Mae and Geneva FL
dreth, Opal and Louise Milan,
bessie and Wayne Rash, Marie
Taylor, Truit Reid, Earle Canter,
Reba FISHERMAN.
Second grade-Flora Mae and
Pearl Eldreth Jewel and Lois
Ashley, Vada Roark, Bruce
Wheatly.
First grade-Butler Milan, Ed
ma Perkins, Arleen Reid, Emma
Sue harrington, Joe and Jean Lee
wis, Robert Stevens, Anna Mae
Wheatly.
Parents and teachers are proud
of Trout school and its work this
year. Trout has grown from a one
teacher school and has an en-
rollment Of 81, membership of rs
and average attendance for 9Th
month is So.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-02-22
Mrs. Tyree Died
In Hospital Sun

Funeral service was held yes
terday, at the home for Mrs. Mol
lie Tyree, of Creston, wife of
John Tyree, who died Sunday in
the Banner Elk hospital follow
ing an extended illness. Burial
took place in the Sutherland
cemetery.
The deceased who was native
of Watauga county, was SO years
old at the time of her death
which was the result of cancer
of the lung.
She is survived by her hus-
band and one son, Grady Tyree,
who teaches at Carthage. Her
mother, Mrs. Eliza H. Munday of
Watauga county also survives.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-02-22
Crop Prospects
Are Very Good
1910 Production Prospects are
Thought Unusual
ly Good.

Looking at the 1910 agricul-
tural picture in North Carolina
from a production standpoint,
prospects for crops are good, says
E. c. Blair, agronomist of the
State College Extension Service.
For one thing, farmers have
sown 10000 acres in winter le-
gumes, far greater acreage than
ever before. If these legumes are
allowed tG grow and gather nitro
gen until April and are turned
under and followed by corn, an
increase of 10 bushels of corn to
the acre, or a total of 100000
bushels, should result.
Also, Tar Heel growers had
$1,000 acres in lespedeza last
year. AS lespedeza usually occu-
pies the land for two years, the
chances are that only half this
acreage will be used for another
crop this year. If planted to corn
the land should produce 10 bush
els more to the acre than former
Iy. Roughly, this would mean an
Increase of 100000 acres, or a.
100000 bushels of corn.
Blair said there is another rea-
son why crops in the Piedmont
should be good this year. The
weather was unusually favorable
for blowing during the fall of
1889, and, consequently, nearly
all land intended for corn, cot
ton, and cowpeas was plowed be-
fore the end of December. This
means that the soil has been SUBJ
jected to freezing and thawing,
which will thoroughly pulverize
it before spring.
The freezes and thaWs also will
help to kill destructive insects,
which gradually have been grow
ing more abundant during the
last two or three years of mild
winters Also, organic matter
pIowed into the soil last fall has
had all winter to decay, and
more of it will be disable by
1870 crops than would have been
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-02-22
Diphtheria Can
Be Stamped Out
BR Dr.. ROBERT KING
District Health Officer

In the New York Times few
weeks ago, there appeared
health report which probably to
the casual reader meant little. 1t
told that in the past year there
were only twenty-six deaths
from diphtheria in New York
city. Surely, nothing very exclt-
ing in such a statement, yet when
l read it, thoughts of long ago
came back to me-thoughts OF
childhood days and a little vii
lage where we lived in Eastern
Pennsylvania in 1895.
In that year an epidemic OF
"black" diphtheria struck our
town. My father was clergyman
and for several weeks there was
hardly day that he was not OF
ficiating at the funeral of one or
another of my school mates. l
remember we'll how sad he
looked when he would come
home, and how he would hang
his Prince Albert coat on the
clothes line in the yard to safe
guard us against possible infec-
ton. Before the whitening blast
of that cruel epidemic had spent
itself, more than thirty little
children were taken away.
Isn't it marvellous, I unused, as
I read the article, in all OF New
York's seven million people only
rs deaths from diphtheria in 1899
compared with a death toll of
thirty odd in our little village of
$500 souls back in 1895!
This story is told by the presi-
dent of one of the nations large
medical companies and should
carry a very pointed lesson to us.
Suppose that we make few
comparisons.
Ashe county has a population
of about twenty-one thousand
and during the year of 1899 there
were two reported deaths from
diphtheria. Had the city of New
York had as many deaths proper
the case had blowing been de-
layed until spring.
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lust Plain Facts and Figures

tery or 4Oc yearly until ten Of then you
will nay goo quarterly SOC yearly until eighty
years of age you eighty Of you will
have paid into the treasury $3.50.
you Join at years Of age, will 20 quarter
y or yearly until you eighty years OF age When
you eighty years Of you will have paid $780,
you join the age of thirty years, will 4oc
quarterly $16O yearly until eighty years OF
age. When you eighty, You will have paid $4,000
II You Join at the age of fifty years, will 60c
quarterly $24O yearly, until eighty years OF
age. When you eighty, you will have paid $72OO
number of people who will pay into the treasury
while out thereby FORGETTING the amount they
have paid in, will bridge the gap between the above ng
$4,000 Yet do not ask that wait until you
eighty years of to die to be able TO collect you
tomorrow the treasury would pay the race Vaue
of your policy to you.
conviction and the conviction OF the insurance
Commission Carolina that the above rates are SAFE
after you have what the above rates will collect
providing everyone live to be eighty years Of age let
us stop think that if charged only One-ha muc
would only collect nehaf of the above amounts.
you believe is possible to take $780, $780, or
$4,000 $780, exchange for this amount return to
you $4,000 at death-year in and out ON and on?
Or would you rather pay more and have an absolute
guarantee that when claim is made there will be in the
treasury of your Burial Association $4,000 for you?
SECRETARY TREASURER
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-02-22


Of All Races -$21, 10000
I certify the above statement to
be a true and correct statement
of the financial affairs of this as
ISOLATION.
w. K. STURDIVANT,
Secretary-TreaSurer
County of Wilkes
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
Sworn and subscribed to before
me this 10th day of jan, 1910.
JOHNSON SANDERS,
Notary Public.
My commission expires October
5, 1941.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-02-22

the case had blowing been de-
layed until spring.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1940-09-12

of course-mesh screen and are
oblong in shape. Getting the
snakes to enter the traps was
a difficult problem until the
investigators discovered that the
reptiles like to glide along the
lake shores in search of food.
Drift fences between 80 and
100 yards long are set at right
angles to the shoreline and lead
to the trap. A bullsnake looking
for choice duck eggs and COM
ing MP against the 2-foot high
wire tries to get around the OBJ
stacle by following, or drifting,
along the fence. Shortly an
other bullsnake is captured.
To cope more effectively with
this control problem, Imler de-
vised the tattooing technique.
Bullsnakes caught in the traps
will be marked. After noting
the marking and the date and
place of release, the egg-Stealer
is liberated. When a tattooed
bullsnake is recaptured the date
and place of recovery is record
ed. Within a few seasons, the
biologists hope to know enough
about the reptiles migration
habits to institute better con-
troll methods.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1940-09-12

to rock, are easily visible as
colored stripes in the sides OF
the mountains. But these layers
are not all precisely horizontal
!olds and faults have given
tnem irregular slants and
cracks.
Just such an irregularity at
the east side tunnel allows the
Underground springs to shower
water upon the surface Of the
road. But it is not the water
tnat falls on the road that wor-
RES park engineers so much as
6nat which remains in the
cracks between the rocks, ex-
banding and contracting as it
freezes and thaws in the cool
weather months.
This present-day pressure, the
aftermath of unbelievably in
tense pressures in ages past,
threatens to drop rocks on the
surface of the road if prompt
action IS not taken to protect
the road.
consequently, plans are being
completed for a $751; 900 REIN
forced concrete barrel, one foot
thick, within the tunnel, which
Will divert both the water and
any rocks which may become
loosened.
The exterior rough-hewn ap-
pearance of the tunnel will not
De marred, as the contour of
the portal will obscure the lin
ing from view. This contour will
not have to be changed except
at one small point, where mas
onry of native rock will be nee
essary to obscure the outer end
OF the lining.
Funds have been allotted for
the project, and it is anticipated
that the park will advertise for
bids early in the fall, as soon as
final details of the plans have
been completed, the Superinten-
dent said. He stipulated that
traffic will be maintained dur
ing the construction period.
The west side tunnel, over
looking Heavens peak, will prob
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1940-09-12
WILL LINE HIGHWAY
IN C PARK

Because a prehistoric pressure
made a prehistoric wrinkle in
what had been the bottom of
a prehistoric ocean, it will be
neceS Sary to line the east side
tunnel on the Going-to-the-Sun
high way as Glacier National
parks next major road pro-
ject, Superintendent D. S. Lib
hey announced recently.
Piercing mighty Piegan noun
tain for a distance of 405 feet
in order that the scenic drive
from ST. Mary lake may reach
Logan pass and cross the con-
tinental divide, this tunnel has
been remembered by tourists
since the highways opening in
1888 as the place where it al
ways rains.
Underground springs - above
the tunnel. but beneath the sur
face If Piegan mountain-have
been finding their way through
the rocks and sending a con-
slant shower upon the surface
of the road. Delightful on a
warm day for all except those
in open cars, but not without
its dangers.
That's where the prehistoric
ocean comes in. Ages ago, the
rocks that now form Glaciers
crags were deposited as layers
of mud by the sea that once
covered this part of the world.
After many of these layers had
hardened into rock, a terrific
pressure wrinkled the surface of
the earth, throwing part of that
ancient ocean-bottom up over
the adjacent land. In time, gla-
ciers carved it into mountains.
To this very day, layers of
the ancient mud, now turned
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1940-09-12
AUXILIARY L
MEETING

The initial fall meeting of
Hardin Unit No. 8, American
Legion Auxiliary, was held at
the Masonic temple Tuesday
evening with Mrs. E. L. jacob
son presiding.
A report on the rodeo pop
stand was given by Mrs. G.. A,
Baker, activities chairman, who
also announced a rummage sale
to be given in the fall. Mrs
M. R. Calderwood reported that
she had made and sent several
tray cloths to the Veteran't hos
pital at Fl. Harrison. A new his
tory Scrap-book, made by I. L.
Dehnert was presented to the
Unit by the outgoing historian,
Mrs. Willard Scott.
AS part of a broad program
of Americanism to be carried
on by the Unit during the year,
approval was given for the pur-
chase of six United States flags
for outdoor display at the Har-
din, Lodge Grass and St. Xav-
led schools. This project will
be carried out in cooperation
with the Americanism work of
the American Legion Post.
"A report of the Department
convention held at Glasgow in
July was given by Mrs. I. L.
Dehnert, with supplementary
remarks by Mrs. Earl Cammock
and Mrs. W. Lyle Bell.
Following the business meet
ing, Miss Viva Ann Shirley sang
two numbers, Isle of Dreams"
and Long, Long Trail" She
was accompanied by Mrs. J..
N. Thompson. Mrs. G. A. Baker,
music chairman, arranged the
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1940-09-12
CANADIAN NEWSPAPERMAN
VISIT INTERNATIONAL PARK

Paying a call on their neigh
bors across the broder, seventy
members of the Alberta Division
of the Canadian Weekly News
paper Association in convention
at Lethbridge, Alta, visited both
the Canadian and the American
sections of the Waterton- Gla-
cier international Peace park.
Accompanied by Super1ntend-
ent G. K. LeCapelain of Water
ton Lakes National park, they
cruised to the head of Waterton
lake, in Glacier National park,
where they visited Goathaunt.
They lunched at the Prince of
Wales hotel in Waterton.