The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-09-04
Editors & Publishers Are
Most Favorably Impressed
With Ashe And Allegheny
for skin diseases.


ing and a most enjoyable program
of entertainment, but he scored
highest in securing as the princi-
pal speaker for the banquet on
Saturday evening that greatest Of
all North Carolina mountain
GERS, Congressman R. L. Dough
ton. For thirty years Mr.. Dough
ton has served as a member OF
the North Carolina delegation in
Congress, and is one of the most
remarkable men, in many ways
the state has ever produced. AT
home last week for a brief vaca-
ton, he spent the night at Shat
ley Springs and made the tour
/ with us on Sunday. Another visi-
tor who was given warm well
come was E. B. Jeffress, of the
Greensboro Daily News, whose
enjoyment and appreciation of
the mountains is unmatched by
anybody. Mr.. Jeffress' continued
improvement in health is a mat
ter of qualification to his friends
all over the state.
Mr.. Doughton's address sound
ed a very serious note, impressing
the fact that America faces
greater crisis now than ever be-
fore in our history. Sacrifices will
be necessary, he warned, and ev-
cry individual must share in the
responsibility that national de-
tense entails. For newspapers,
large and small, there are even
greater responsibilities and very
definite duty to the public. I've
heard Mr.. Doughton make many
speeches, but never a better one
than he made at Shatley Springs
last Saturday night. He was in
rare form.
After the meeting, the details
of which would be interesting
to newspaper people,
practically all, even Mr.. Jeffress,
took part in the square dance,
with a string band furnishing ty-
pical mountain music. Mr.. Dough-
ton went to bed early, as is his
custom, and the next morning he
was up ''bright and early to take
a long walk.
Shatley Springs had become so
crowded with week end guests
that four of us, Mr.. and Mrs. An
derson, my aunt, Mrs. Gound, who
had accompanied me. and went
to Bromine-Arsenic Springs an
other famous watering place" IN
the mountains, a few miles from
to sleep. Believe it or
not, it was so cool that we each
slept under two double blankets.
The healing qualities of the wa
ter of this spring have caused the
place to be known as Healing
The water and mountain air, or
both, certainly gave every per-
son in our crowd a real appetite
for the quantities of good food at
every meal. Nobody thought OF
dieting. Big, light biscuits, coun-
try ham with red gravy, fried
chicken-that's just a beginning
of the type of food served and
Negro Mountain, near West JEFF
ferson, affording an exceptionally
panoramic view of what looks
like all of Ashe and adjoining
counties, was our first tour"
Sunday morning. A fairly good
road has been graded to the top
and the view was well worth the
trip.
bluff Park" on the Parkway IS
indescribably beautiful and is at
tracing hundreds of visitors dali
ly. Mr.. Doughton, who was in our
car, told us that the first land ne
ever owned was now embraced IN
this park, and it was very IA
miliar ground to him. We en-
loved a brief stop at his beautiful
country home ear Laurel
Springs, and he took pride in
showing those who were interest
ed a very fine Guernsey bull
which he had recently added to
his herd.
It is very evident that Ashe and
Allegheny are rich counties from
an agricultural standpoint, well
adapted to trucking, dairying and
cattle. Corn and buckwheat
thrive in the valleys and on
mountain sides, and cabbage is
one of the big crops. There is a
Kraft cheese factory at West JET
ferson and in front of little homes
all along the highways could be
seen large milk cans, indicating
that milk routes extend through
out the section. So many things
are raised on the average noun
tain farm that apparently condi-
+ions are ideal for Giving at