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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-07
P. T. A. Meets Tuesday
GirIs' Club Meets

The Wolcott Girls club met re- gently at the home of Rena Stamate- lon. After the work period 6 social houe was spent and refreshments served.
 Those present were: Lois Avery, Jean Avery, Audrey outtr!m, orissa German, Jacqueline Dumschatt, Barbara Browne, Betty Megln, Helen Webber, June Vasillov, Rena Stamatelon, Celia Stamatelon, Mrs. Frederick Megin and Mrs. Hans Beeybaum. The next meeting will be held on March 14 at the home of Orissa German.
 Raymond Bowen has returned to his home In Waterbury after spend- ing Q week with his aunt, Mrs. 0. Nelson Cole and MT. Cole.
 MT. and Mrs. Kenneth Filing. worth of Bristol were Sunday guests of MT. and Mrs. Elmer Symonds of the Woodtick road.
 Miss Esther Bronson and her brother Ransom Bronson enter tained at dinner Sunday for Mir. and Mrs. Willis Gotsell and daughter Lucille of Thomaston.
 Yarringtons Have Son
 Mir. and Mrs. 0. Arthur Yarring- ton of Lewis avenue are the parents of a son born at the Waterbury hospital Tuesday.
 Robert Sole, six year old son of MT. and Mrs. Harry Cole of Center street fell while playing Tuesday afternoon and broke his collarbone.
 Mrs. Carl Peterson, Miss Marjorie Peterson, Albert and Carl A. Peter- son of Spindle Hill were guests Sum- day of Mrs. Pete rsons parents, MT. and Mrs. John Peterson in Nauga- tuck.
 Mrs. Grant Outtrim visited her son, Robert Brundage, at the naval base in Newport, Rhode Island, Sunday.
 March 29 Sammy Springs or- chestra will play for dance at the Watches Rock club house sponsored by the north end fire department.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-07
SENATOR BALDWIN SPEAKS MARCH IS Woodbridge Resident to Address Meeting of
 Young Republicans
WOLcOTT Sfrs. 0. Nelson Cole, Todd ROA0--Telephone 5O930

Wolcott, March 7-Senator Clar- eTlce Baldwin of Woodbridge will be guest speaker at the Young Repub- lican club meeting March 18 at 8 p. m. at the Land owners Protective association club house. All Repub- leans in town are invited to attend.
 P. T. A. Meets Tuesday
 The South school P. T. A. will met ct the South school Tuesday at Q p. m. Mrs. Alfred Winchell will preside at the business meeting after which John Cavanaugh of Maple Lane will give a special showing of And Beauty Comes," a motion picture featuring garden beauty spots and practical hints on gardening, lawn making and plant feeding.
 The North school P. T. A. will meet tonight at the school ct 8 o'clock. Mrs. Ray French will pre- side. Mrs. Robert Seery has charge of the program and Mrs. Edgar Norton refreshments. Howard Kraft will discuss first aid,
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-05-15
Graded Cabbage
Pays Producers

Raleigh, May T. Initial ship
ments of North Cardinals 1941
cabbage crop are expected May
10 and "if farmers are to receive
the maximum returns for their
efforts, strict attention must be
given to approved grading and
marketing methods" Harry T.
Westcott, fruits and vegetables
marketing specialist Of the State
Department of Agriculture, said
today.
"For the past three seasons it
has been necessary for the gov
eminent to purchase a large por-
ton of the early cabbage crop, but
if present prices prevail and
growers will properly pack and
grade their crop, a federal buy
ing program may not be needed
this season." he added. However,
generally North Carolina farmers
have not followed marketing
practices in the past"
In meeting market demands,
Westcott said that farmers must:
(1) Trim cabbage so as not to
have more than four wrapper
leaves which do not enfold the
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-05-15
PAGE SEVEN

around her bed, and the sting Of
death chilled the atmosphere, she
held on to an unwavering faith
in Christ who was to lead her
through the lonely valley. She
gave to us a noble and heroic ex-
ample of Christ-like love; this
love was great enough to Danish
all fear. For a great cause she
came into the world that through
her Christian influence many
might find happiness.
How she dreaded the blight of
sin upon her children! How she
prayed that it might be removed,
even if it should take her very
life! Such is pure, sacred and I'M
defiled motherhood; great enough
to suffer that children may come
into the world and unselfish
enough to die that they might be
reborn into eternal happiness.
AS the body of Mrs. Wilson lies
beneath the sod, her soul dwells
in Paradise; yet today she lives
us in the lives of others.
May God give us more mothers
who can face life and live it so
beautifully, who are brave
to accomplish that which
they seek, and in death may there
be blissful happiness.
! By Gertrude GRAPHICAL
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-05-15
By IRA MILLER
Farm Identification Bureau

! EbcCGTSJtCUttON
IN ONE respect. American agricul-
; 4 ture today is almost back where it
. was when tho pioneers first hewed
their farms from the virgin prairie,
: valley and hillside. Then, they were
; largely dependent on their own skill
and ingenuity for the manufacture
and repair of tools and equipment
towns were few and far and, even so,
, did not always lave a smithy.
AS the country and it's agriculture
developed, every village had its
. blacksmith and implement dealer so
that, with few exceptions. all kinds
of machine repairs and requirements
were available when time permitted.
In consequence, most farmers lost the
knack of making any but the most
minor of repairs to equipment. and
their workshops were principally
useful when repairing buildings.
The coming of the autombile and
tractor, and the consequent gradual
{ displacement of the horse and mule,
=. has caused the almost complete dis
| appearance of the smithy from the
! rural scene. But the mechanization of
| farming has continued apace, and
with it has come a tremendous in
j crease in the number and nature of
repairs to many different machines.
True. requirements for worn or
broken parts usually can be obtained
from the hardware or implement
dealer in the nearest town. But these
frequently are expensive and take
time no matter how little - which
often can i'll be spared at the height
Of the harvest. Even more important,
adequate service and maintenance Of
mechanical equipment--andt the MAX
ing Of small repairs Immediately they
are needed--not only eliminates many
irequcn: and costly major repairs ard
reDlacemen+s but also assures years
Of troublc-free operation.
Good farm management. thcrefo4e e.
requires a well-built, wcll-equipped
AMI well-lighted workshop where
every kind of maintenance, repair
AMI construction work can be done
regardless Of the weather or time of
dav 1t should be big enough to take
care of all bat the largest pieces of
machinery and. for maximum eff
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-05-15
Save By Storing
Clothes Carefully

Farm women are reminded by
Miss Willie Hunter, Extension
clothing specialist of State Col
lege, that careful storage of win
ter clothing will reduce expenses
next fall. "A coat, a dress, a swea-
ter, or other articles Of clothing
can easily be ruined in one warm
weather period by moths and 9TH
er insects" she declared.
A pound of natpthalene or para
dichlorobenzene crystals, scat
tered between thin layers Of pa
per and placed at intervals in the
clothing in a tight box or trunk
will destroy any insects that may
be present, Miss Hunter says. The
chemicals are equally as effective
for control of clothes moths and
carpet beetles.
All articles to be stored should
first be thoroughly cleaned,
brushed, aired and summed to get
rid of any stray eggs or larvae of
the insects. In a closet that is
kept tightly closed, a pound of
either chemical to about 100 feet
of closet space prevents infesta-
ton. The larve of the insect
causes damage to clothing and
furnishings and containing wool
hair, bristles, fur, feathers and
other animal substance.
The Extension specialist says it
is easier to prevent carpet beetles
and other insects than to kill
them after they have infested a
room or closet. In the routine of
good housekeeping, rugs should
be cleaned frequently on both
sides to get rid of carpet beetles.
Filling floor cracks with a good
filler eliminates hiding places and
makes housekeeping simpler.
can article of clothing proper
1y stored means money saved"
Miss Hunter declared, "and with
living costs mounting because of
the defense program it is impor-
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-05-15

head fairly tight; (2) See that
heads are not bursted, do not
show seed stems and are free
from decay, damage caused by
discoloration, disease or insects;
90 Grade so as to show the mini
mum and maximum size of a lost,
or identify the lot as small, me-
dunn or large; az Use the is
bushel hamper or PONY crate,
preferably the crate since they
usually command slightly higher
prices.
POINTED type cabbage is con-
sidered small if the heads weigh
less than is pounds, medium if
they weigh is to three pounds
and large if over three pounds"
Westcott explained. ''When they
are packed in containers growers
should attempt to segregate the
sizes. Containers for cabbage
have not been standardized and
as a result many types have been
used, including the is bushel
hamper, half-barrel crate, So
pound wire bound crate and sacks
that hold from so to 100 pounds.
In the early cabbage producing
area of Eastern North Caroline
approximately 2,100 acres are
planted or approximately 100 &C.
res less than the record crops of
1900 acres in 1888 and 1910.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-05-15
u. S. Launches Its Second
Big Roundup OF Aliens

New York-Fashionable hotels
clubs and restaurants were in.
vaded by immigration inspectors
and city detectives staging the Sec
ond roundup of the week against
foreigners Suspected of being in
this country Illegally.
The quarry this time consisted
of Italians, mostly walters. Seized
in raids in several cities Wednes-
day were $50 German seamen, all
charged with overstaying their
leave in the United States.
Cat Gloucester, N. j., Commits
sioner James l.. Hughes of the U
S. immigration station said that
225 aliens, most of them Italians
who had entered this country IL
legally or had overstayed their le-
gal time limit, were in custody
at the station there.
Gle said they had been arrest
ed by federal agents during the
past few weeks, "six or eight at
a time" in various areas of the
Atlantic seaboard.)
Repeating Wednesdays proceed
ure by moving swiftly and with
no advance warning, the officers
made &c arrests within three
hours, and officers armed with
warrants were still engaged in the
search.
Byron Uhl, district immigration
director, said he had no figure on
the total number rounded up but
it was unofficially estimated at
between IS and 40.
Among the places employing
the aliens were the Ambassador,
Ritz-Carlton and Pierre hotels
and a restaurant in Rockefeller
Center's r. G. A. building.
Those arrested were taken to
Ellis Island where they joined IA
German seamen and two German
newsmen held without bail for
deportation hearings.
Although official comment was
lacking, it was assumed the
roundup was staged on the same
authority as its predecessor. That
was ordered by Attorney General
Jackson who indicated the action
was a precautionary measure to
forestall possible fifth column &C
tivities in this country.
Justice department officials in
Washington said warrants were
issued for 100 men, many of
whom had come here from Italy
to work at the Italian pavilion OF
the New York worlds fair of 1889
and 1910.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-05-15
Modern Agriculture Requires
Electrified Workshop on Farm

cheney and convenience. should be
wired for electricity.
In addition to installing enough
properly located and sufficiently
powerful lights, small electric motors
portable where practicable - also
should be provided to run the tool
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-05-15
Women In
The News

VISION
ON MOTHERS DAY 1941, wo-
men of America are lifting their
eyes from the small, warm ways
of home to watch a young country
awake and stretch itself. Their
hearts quicken to the tempo of
steel and steam, the thrust of
great machines, newly forged. On
farms and city streets. in homes
and shops and mills, their will is
firm-to keep freedom for their
children that their mothers won
for them And now some news
about today's mothers >.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-05-15
LITTLE MOTHER

TO CONVICTS in every peni-
tertiary in the country, Mrs.
Maud Ballington Booth, 75-year-
old head of the Volunteers of
America, is known as little mo-
ther." She has spent most of the
last A years in the nations pris-
oners trying to make the convict's
life a better one.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-05-15
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE

AN 82-YEAR-OLD MOTHER,
Mrs. Joseph T. Bowen of Chica-
60, is the first woman to receive
the Chicago Merit Award. Often
called "Chicago's First Citizen
Mrs. Bowen is credited with OBJ
tanning the first anti-sweatshop
laws in the Middle West, the first
juvenile detention home in the
world, the first use of policewo-
man, the first juvenile court and
the first boys clubs in Chicago.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-05-15
Obituary
Devoted Christian Mother
Answers Deaths Call

Friends and relatives of Mrs.
Emma Wilson were made to
pause with intense grief when on
May 2, 1941, she closed her eyes
to sorrow, pain and suffering. AS
the shadows of darkness lowered
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-05-15

mower knives are easy 70 sharpen
with an electric grinding wheel.
grinder, grindstone, lathe, drill. forge,
planer, splicer. metal and wood saws.
paint sprayer and many tools COM
monty operated by hand. A portable
electric drill and grinder is helpful
in repairing machines that are too
large to get into the workshop. while
an electric soldering iron. arc weider,
gluepot and battery charge: are use
ful things to have around.
A complete an6 orderly electrified
workshop will save any farmer money
and time. Its operating cost is ex-
tremely low and, if it be the means
OF keeping crew of Net at work or
even OF saving an entire crop. it my
pay for itself in single season. Even
the small savings such shop can
effect will liquidate the entire crigi-
nal cost in few years.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-05-15

ice skating, hiking, music and the
movies. She does her own house.
work, makes some of her own
clothes and lives in a four-room
apartment.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-05-15
Warrensville News

|
Kinston, Ala, accompanied by
Mrs. Shoals parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Meecham, of Montgomery, Ala,
were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. w. P.
Shoaf, this week end.
Jack Caudill, of Elkin, visited
homefolks here Friday and Sat
urday.
Mrs. Wade H. Jones has re-
turned from Atlamahaw, where
she has been visiting her son for
a few weeks.
Misses Bea, Marguerite and
Bobby" Baker, of Charlotte,
spent the past week end with re-
latives here.
Smith Shoemake made bust
ness trip to North Wilkesboro,
Saturday.
Miss Beulah Haynes, librarian
at Rutherford, N. c., is visiting
her sister, Mrs. Clifton Brewer.
Mrs. Gordon Whitener, daugh-
ter, Doris Ann and Mrs. J. w.
Caudill were calling on friends
there Friday.
John D. Weaver left for Kan
napolis Monday where he will be
employed this summer.
Miss Beryl Dollar entertained a
number of friends at a party Fri
day evening, honoring Irene
Jones, who left for Altamahaw
Saturday, where she will spend
the summer.
Rev. w. A. Thomas and family,
of Winston-Salem, visited rela-
tives here this week end. Miss
Flora Thomas attended Sunday
school at the Methodist church
while here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Rhodes were
in Warrensville Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. M. Beck, of
Lorain, Ohio, returned home Sat-
urday, after a few days with re-
latives here. They were called to
Ashe by the death of Mrs. Beck's
mother, Mrs. James Jones, of
Clifton.
Miss Irene Eller and K. L. Ell
Ter, Jr., were business visitors in
Charlotte, Friday.
MIR. and Mrs. Jack Richardson
and family were guests of Mr..
and Mrs. J. M. Warren, Sunday.
The Mothers Day service was
well attended. Rev. J. G. Woot-
ton, Jr., preached splendid ser
mon. Mrs. w. P. Shoaf had the
distinction of being the oldest mo-
Their present so was called to Sc
lect her favorite hymn for use in
the church service. ~
The members of the Epworth
League had, their social in the
Sunday school building Monday
night.
Miss Margaret Johnson is visit
ing her sister, Mrs. Randall Wood
lie, at West Jefferson this week.
H. C. Campbell has recovered
from a recent illness, sufficiently
to attend church again.
Mrs. G. G. Howell was shop
ping in West Jefferson, Friday.
w. H. Jones continues to i'm
prove.
Miss Mary Johnson has re-
turned from an extended visit to
Elkin.
The "clean up" program is 60
/ ing forward with splendid re-
suits. Members of the Boys Club
with John T. Shoaf, Rev. and Mrs.
J. G. Wootton, Jr., and several la
dies of the w. M. of c. S. are par
ticipating in the work.
The Girls Missionary group has
been organized with the following
officers: president, Mary Lynn
Johnson; vice-president, Marjorie
Brewer; secretary and treasurer,
Marguerite Johnson; chairman of
committees, Darrell johnson, r.
enc Hunter and Beryl Dollar.
DR.. and Mrs. E. R. Smith, E. N.
Warden, Jr., and Don Warden, of
Bluefield, w. Va, were guests of
their grandmother, Mrs. R. T.
Johnson, Saturday night.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-05-15

Sixty per cent of all drivers in
fatal accidents in North Carolina
last year were residents of rural
areas.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-05-15

More automobile accidents hap
pen between z and 8 o'clock at
night than during any other hour.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-05-15

More than $4,000 pedestrians
were killed by motor vehicles in
this country last year.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-05-15

Railroad crossing accidents
killed over 1000 people in the
United States last year.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-05-15

tant that every dollar be saved
in both the rural and the urban
home.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-05-15
A Good 225-Acre Grazing
Farm Is For Sale!

am offering for sale at very reasonable
price fine 225-acre farm located highway 10 near
Whitehead, N. c. in Allegheny county, This is an ex
celent grazing farm is well watered and has good
fences, splendid dairy barn, so small dwell
ling and of the best orchards in this section 1t is
located on milk and mail route and is the rural
electric line.
will sell it at bargain price, Terms can be ar
ranged.
AMOS WAGNER
Sparta, N. c.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-05-15
WAR MOTHERS

MRS. IRIS HARDMAN, A.
year-old mother of seven child
rem, works as a railway porter at
Birmingham station in England.
She is busy seven days a week
handling soldiers heavy kit bags
and pushing trucks up and down
the platform.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-05-15
'ROCK-A-BYE BABY

MRS. EFFIE I. CA MIN G
CARLTON, "a, whose slumberous
m elody, "Rock-a-Bye Baby"
brought the sandman to the bed
side Of millions of babies but
never to one of her own-died re-
Gently in impoverished circum-
stances. She composed the melody
to the old Mother Goose Rhyme
to lull to sleep the restless baby
of neighbor.
FIRST LADY
THE MOTHER OF 2 DAUGH-
TIERS, Mrs. A. w. L. Tjarda Won
Starkenborgh- Stachouwer, wife OF
the governor general of the Dutch
East Indies, is known throughout
the Netherlands empire for her
philanthropic interests. She once
saved an agriculture school for
low-class Eurasian boys from
closing, and even supervised the
selling of the schools lone cow to
satisfy debts. She is a native OF
Baltimore, Md.
TYPICAL CUSTOMER
MRS. TYPICAL CUSTOMER
OF 1941, selected by the National
Retail Dry Goods association, is
Mrs. Clementine Thill of La
Crosse, Wis, a slim 36-year-old
blonde, who is the mother of
three-two boys and a girl. Her
husband, who is 40 earns $50 a
week installing and servicing oil
burners. Her hobbies are bridge,
Evening star., 1941-07-25
|OId TinCons
| Bring Profit to
Trash Collector

The lowly tin can usually con-
signed to the rusty oblivion of an
ash heap has been recued by the
Washington Suburban Sanitary S
Commission-anda at a profit too.
Since last October, the commits
sion has been baling the receptacles
brought to its incinerator near
Bladensburg and selling them to a
chemical firm at q profit of $3.50
a ton.
The cans are brought in by refuse
haulers from various parts of the
commissions sanitary district and
separated from the rest of the trash
which goes into the incinerator.
Then they are dumped into a hop
per and fed into a compartment
where they are compressed into
35-pound square blocks by plunger
driven by an electric motor.
Figures for the first six months
of this year reveal gross sales of
$2,376.58 or 264 tons of tin cans
sold to the firm at SO a ton. From
the sale price are deducted hauling
and other charges which leaves a
net profit of $3.50 a ton. An average
of A tons of baled tin cans are sold
a month according to commission
figures and II each week giving an
average weekly profit of $3.50. Ths
proceeds Of the sales are used In
operating expenses Of the incinera-
toe.
Evening star., 1941-07-25
in which very little steel would be

in which very little steel would be
used.
Supporting the committee, Repre-
sentative Taber of New York, rank
ing Republican on the Appropriations
Committee, declared he believed the
annual saving in efficiency alone
would pay for the whole building. Mr..
Woodrum said the erection of the
building would make it possible for
the Government to release some of
the apartment houses it now rents
or intends to rent and thereby make
for better living conditions in the
District.
News that the House was con-
sidering the building item in the
appropriation bill came as a general
surprise to departmental officials.
The few that seemed to be in the
know" evidently were not expect
ing such early action. 1t was only
on Tuesday of this week that Gen.
Somervell discussed the project be-
fore the Appropriations Committee.
Designed to house 10000 employees
and to be erected within one year,
the building would be the largest
Government Office structure any
where. Under its roof would be
housed nearly twice as many assthe
$4,000 employees now accommodated
in all the monumental buildings in
the so-called Federal Triangle from
the Apex to the Commerce Building.
Evening star., 1941-07-25
Mrs. Olive Branch Hotton
Will Be Buried Today

Funeral services for Mrs. Olive
Branch Hatton, IS, mother of a
Seventh day Adventist missionary,
who died Wednesday at the home
of her granddaughter, Mrs. Reg
inald Peasants, 263 Park avenue,
Takoma Park, Md, were held last
night at Walters funeral home, Ia
koma Park. She will be buried to-
day in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Hatton was native of New
Haven, Conn, but lived in Philaael-
phia most of her life. Her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Cuno P. Crager, and her
husband, Mr.. Crager, spent 33 years
in missionary service in Africa.
South and Central America. Mrs.
Hatton spent one year in Africa
with them and her daughter re-
turned about a year ago to care
for her.