The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-26
John Anderson i'm absence of Mrs.
Stella Anderson.

Stella Anderson.
The people round town are
talking about: Laura Ann Nc
Neill winning $4,000 at the Park
way Theatre last Monday night.
She says, "wish I'd gotten it be-
fore the Fair ended" Ed
Bars new recording outfit. The
latest record made was a duet
by the Garvey boys, Joe and Bill
mandolin and guitar ticklers as
we'll as crooners Miss Effie
Galloway winning the $4,000
chicken brooder at the Fair Sat-
urday afternoon after master-of-
ceremonies, Ed M. Anderson, had
drawn % tickets out of the box
:. The strangeness of Miss Ruby
Roark being directly in front of
Editor Anderson Friday after
noon when he called out her
number which was good for $1O.-
90. The little girl who drew the
ticket from the box says she had
never seen Miss Roark before, so
undoubtedly it was one of those
things stranger than fiction E.
The "Welcome Fair Visitors" sign
remaining across the street in
West Jefferson two days this
week Central Radios new
Neon sign making the town look
like New York City T.. . The dis
appearance of the slot machines
over night last week-and they
say they won't be back
The people round town are
talking about: A certain 'ady in
West Jefferson, trying to avoid
paying 10c to get in the Fair last
week, slipping through the fence.
miring up in mud a foot deep.
losing a shoe, running a pair of
new hose, and having a pass in
her pocketbook all at the same
time >. Prof. Paul Miller's grand
champion Hereford bull that
weighed 1900 and is only 7 years
old, that many feared would pull
the building down where he was
tied on the Fair grounds Gwyn
Ganobill not entering any hogs in
the Fair this year cause last year
he entered one hog one day and
went back the next day to find
he had Is hogs entered said he
didn't want to ''hog" the show
this year Mr.. Bullock, owner
of the carnival here with the
Fair last week, who followed the
policy of doing a little more than
he said he would do-by giving
P. G. Wright $500 when he
heard Saturday night the Legion
wasn't going to make much on
the dance to apply on the Com
munity building Mrs. Stella
Anderson back on the job regard
less of her arm in a sling Mrs.
Wiley Bare, a woman, winning
the mems hog-calling contest last
Thursday Another woman,
we didn't get her name. all dres-
sed up in a blue suit and running
in the 1OO-yard dash held for wo-
men at the Fair, falling, doing a
few flips in the sand, and no one
NOT one man in the crowd Of
fering to pick her up. They s3y
that blue suit was every color
besides blue when she get up {.
The people round, town are
talking about: the local boys who
might be drafted shortly to train
for war including, Dean An
drews, Paul Hopkins, Sam Camp
bell, your truly and many, many
more The streets and side
walks we're going to get: don't
ask me when, but soon if not
sooner, they say . A local cafe
operator running off owing West
Jefferson grocery stores over
500. But the runaway was ap-
pretended and local merchants
paid up The excellent be-
havior of the crowds - between
8 and 4 thousand-here at the
Fair last Saturday night. Only
five or six arrests were made,
and Chief Mcmillan says we had
the largest crowds ever seen in
West Jefferson and fewer public
disturbances =.
And the Fair officials are talk
ing about what fine cooperation
Sheriff Everett Roland, his dep
uties, Patrolman and Chief Nc
MILAN gave the association. Many
fair goers paid the 1Oc admis-
sion because of above mentioned
gentlemen, and the officials are
grateful. And it was imperative
that the small admission be
charged in order to defray an I'm
exnected state tax. additional