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fiivls STATEMENT
ON SAETY ISSUE
Mayor Coffey of Blowing Rock,
Cites Record of Highway
Accidents.
By l>. 1\ COFFEY
The situation in the state of North
Carolina in regard to the loss of lives
on our streets and highways should
alarm each citizen and should be a
warning to them to be more careful
for their own protection, to be more
considerate for the rights and lives
of others and should arouse indignation
for careless, reckless or drunken
driving.
According t? reliable information
nearly 1.000 were killed and more
than 0.000 injured in this state alone,
in 1931 with many minor accidents
not reported
Murder, suicide, death and destruction
on the highways, robbery and
kidnapping in this soculleJ civilized
country.
The slaughter goes or and may be
greater in 1935. Von are requested
to assist in bringing about a remedy
for such a situation. Your attention
is cailcd to the following:
Outline of Safety Program
1 I.>vKl.rilmtirta i'linnc TIitj nil>pp
of 500,000 copies of "Guides to Highway
Safety" as the basis of instruction
(1) to ali officials and employees
in city halls, county courthouses, and
state departments; (2j to members
of citizens organizations, business
houses, and automobile <lriver3. (3)
to 150.000 students andd teachers ir.
851 high schools, as the beginning- of
a stale-wide program of accident prevention
and motor vehicle law enforcement.
II. Systematic discussion during
the first weeks in January (1) by
150,000 students and teachers in Sol
high schools. by all Citizens organizations
of men and woni&n, (3)
bv members of all business organizations.
< 1) by city councils, county
commissioners, and all groups of publie
officials and employees.
LLf. Systematic Instruction in
Schools of I .a*.v Enforcing Officers to
be Conducted every month in every
city and county of the state by
judges and solicitors of the superior
courts, recorders' courts, sheriffs
and chiefs of police, analyzing accidents
of the previous month and mapping
out programs of prevention for
the next month.
IV. Copies of 'amides to Highway
Safety" may be procured from City
Hails, local school authorities, or the
Institute of Government. Chapel Hill,
w r
V. The monthly magazine, POPULAR
GOVERNMENT, will furnish a
clearing house of information each
month on street and highway accidents
in North Carolina and safety
programs and campaigns as they
develop throughout the state. Write
to the Institute of Government. Chapel
Hill. N. O
Please get a copy o: 'Guiddes to
Highway Safety" as early as you
can.
D. P. COFFKY, Mayor.
Blowing* Rock; N. C.
DEMAND FOK DECORATIONS
BRINKS MONEY TO STATE j
Hickory. Mountaineers of western;
North Carolina i:i getting ready for'
Christmas are getting rich, after a
fashion, off the rest of the nation? J
and off heme folks too, for that mat- j
ter.
And all because people want to !
dress up Lhe house with leaves. J
So between $70,000 and $100,000
will be spent for presents and children
who have received the money
for picking galax leaves and princess j
pines.
The leaves are sold to various mar-1
kels and then shipped to almost ev-1
ery state In the er.lcr. fcr I'ul: dc ,
eorations. The galax stays green forj
months while the pir.es enhance the i
decorations.
Galax, palm-leafed shaped, and the |
tiny evergreen twigs are packed in
Christmas boxes and sold in bulk.
A case of 10,000 galax plants retails
for $10.
Galax requires a high altitude In
which to grow and turn bronze in
color after a heavy Lost. They are
bound in bundles of 2S while the
pines are shipped in. bulks of 10.-!
000 plants.
Local brokers this year advised
that persons in other communities re-1
ceiving galax ieaves he notified they'
are not edible
Two years ago, one said, a salesman
from the north purchased a
turkey here, and had it shipped home.
The salesman, in dressing up the
package, decorated it with galax.
Last Christmas the salesman
bought another turkey but told the
merchant:
"Just keep those plants like you j
sent me last Christmas. They make
the bitterest dressing 1 ever tried to j
cat."
FAKMEIt IS KILLED j
Yadkinvillc, Doc. 20- John Long,:
73, was killed instantly today near
his home, three miles north of here,
when a team of mules ran away and j
threw him from a wagon.
Long was hauling corn when the
mules became frightened and ran,
throwing him under the wheels,
which passed over his head. He was
found by a tenant.
Surviving are his wife, and one son,
J. D. Long, of Winston-Salem.
Funeral service will be conducted
at Deep Creek Friends Church Sunday
morning at 11 o'clock.
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Mrs. Durkee's
Christmas Gander
By Martha B. Thomas
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Mils. UrUKili: had a gander. a 1
line strong bird with line \
strong wings. Wherever Mrs. J
| lun kee went tlui gander went, too. | I
1 Koine years ago a goose egg had i I
| been given to Mrs. Durkoc. It was a j I
j very large egg and ready to hatch, j I
j but a fox had killed the mother goose. I t
! it should make, when hntehod and [ i
! grown up. a line Christmas dinner! j s
i Just as Mrs. IHirkoe prepared a nest j t
| f??r it, the shell cracked and out popped I ?
I a head with very surprised eyes. Froth !
! that niomeni the gosling and Mrs. Pur- j
hoc became friends. . She no more j
thought of him lu
terms l- .:".!'.;
t h a n she \v o u 10
| think of a neighbor *&fi- '.r
j til that unkind manI
Tin* widow lived y^'TT^V. j
I 11Iv.no mul as llio /' j %fi\) (
I Kiinder crow to mail- ). /"\
! lifted (so 10 speak). / / \
i slie depended more ? . " -ti'
\ .mil inure on lilm. VV\Tf ^
j ^ftiuird lines nl ntglit <SE5rV
she would rouse lilm
and he would un- ^
link his head from ;?fe"-*?^C-^3yL,
his wins and escort H
her forth under n wintry moon. h
And now, at the Christmas season, c
Gander was in full plumage and of a v
stern temper. g
Christmas eve she sat alone by her
kitchen lire, and there came a knock j
at the door. A man stood there and
before she could speak pushed his way 8
iu. Seeing no one about* ho ordered 0
her to bring him bread and coffee and (
meat. She brought the man what he s
asked, and when he bad eaten he said, t
"ixow, give me all your mouey and j,
I'll go with no trouble." s
''Nv balu i :lvcc. -jxi w iii noti "
Out came his list and she Just fi
escaped a hard cuff on tl .* head. She S
was angry enough to fight but instead p
went to her pantry. "I keep money in k
a jug here," she said and jingled some P
coins. At the same time she softly \
raised the window and whistled. w
"FTey . . . come on with the cash! a
lTm in a hurry!"
"Yes, yes . . . some has stuck in the ?
bottom." She made a great to-do at
jingling. Then she heard a sleepy h
"Honk-Honk!" Her heart lifted. t!
"I have a few bills tucked behind
the cookie jar," she added. "Let me
get those." (Anything to take up time!)
She came slowly into the kitchen. A
"Here is your money," she said. "Oh, n
dear, I do believe some one Is at the
door. Take it quick!" She threw the n
coins at the man, and opened the door.
In stalked the gander ready for any- u
thing.
jne man shoved out his foot as If ! 01
to kick hiui. In a moment, hissing and I ir
nipping, the great bird seemed to sur- j
round the man with heavy heating j s<
wings. The harder Die unwelcome **
guest tried to escape the harder he w
was beaten back. At last, crouching 51
and fending off the blows, he fled r*
through the door . . . scattering coins
all the way. The wad of hills had
merely hccn a piece of make-believe.
1 The door slammed and the lonely H
widow siil down in a chair and laughed
j and laughed and laughed. The gander n
I stood beside her, looking dignified and 01
| preening his ruffled feathers. -v'
"I'd rather have you Tor a friend,"
\ cried Mrs. Durkee, "than all the roast 51
i ducks, turkeys and geese In the world. ll
! Merry Christinas . . .! and 1*11 give you ^
some fresh lettuce this minute."
I The gander's bright eyes roved
| about the room, and he followed Mrs.
I Durkee into the pantry. ?
? YVeatorn Newsnapev Union.
VATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EVE!
Sitii <*-40*
tjcarramua *> o t
Mary Pines for
Her Pines
(.. Ckristmiu Story)
Bv Luclia it. Lyons
v A AUY MINTKii left her home
\/| frojr south of the Mason*
l V 1. oixt n line to marry Jack
Inivard. That's how she 't.amw"netl to
?e hating her new home In the Nominating
the s:U?w and cold and the
lreworks she knew .-he was missing
town home that Christmas day. Guana
on! of tha window ait :-!.? cwuid
;oe were pine trees from four inches
o sixty feet in height. Cinlftrs! Pines!
>2>ru'cesI She hated the words, even.
*- op^r
They Reached Ann Spear's Hospital
Room and Made Explanations.
"How about a Christmas tree in the
iousc, honey? Maybe that would help
beer you, dt you suppose? i know
ou're eating your heart out with Joneomcness
for home this, your first
iirlstmas nwnv." Jack offered, but i
fary spurned his sympatJjy.
"A tree. A tree, did yon .say? Lia ha." i
he laughed bitterly, *v: out there and
n up the Ridge and look at those
rees there by the hundreds and thouands.
Imagine they are all Christmas
rees if you like." Jack gave up tryng
to placate iior hut he understood?
he was at that stairo of homesickness
About noon there came a phone call
rom their nearest neighbor. Milt
pears. His wife was In the city hosital,
'10 miles away, and he had prom;ed
to visit here I here, taking the
ivo youngsters, but about an hour ago
lilt had sprained an ankle and now?
^ould Mary and .Tack take the kids
nd go In his place?
What difference did It make if it
as nearly nightfall when the pair and
ic two youngsters reached Ann Spears*
ospltal room and made the explanaons
and witnessed the relief that was
d evident on the anxious wife's face.
"But where did you find such a novel
*ee arrangement, Mrs. Howard?"
nn*s doctor wanted to know the moinnt
he sighted the midget Christmas
*00 Mary had fixed up at a moment's
otlce. "Why, they are the niftiest
lings I've ever seen yet. and I'd like
? buy a dozen of them."
A strip of painted tin that was
ent to hang over the head of a bed
lto the shape ot" a shelf or bracket
irmed the foundation. A tiny cedar
idling about eight inches high
>nued the tree. Mary had siripped a
e<h of tube roses she had been
rowing, to tie the oiossoms all over
iat midget village tree. Pitting Into a
ot on that little tin bracket, it smiled
s blessing upon the gathering.
rtuy luieuae you mignt stop by the
Ioward Midget Christmas Tree Farm
> find Mary and Jack getting a bit of
isl from their labors, another gloriii9
selling campaign over for another
car. Yes, you'll find Mary there, for
ic does get pretty lonely when she
mst be away from her thousands of
slaved midget conifers any length of
me!
? Western Nowaptvpcr Union.
Christmas Cracker From Franco
The Christmas cracker came from
ranee about eighty years ago.
iY THURSDAY?BOONE, ii.
I ChriHmaf'
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IMI'ATIHNTI.Y shoved I
steaming pahs ahfl kettles Into l
warming 4>vc?t. looking down t
?)iiVf-w:iy ;ir. she had done for nlin<
two hours. she ivtciuilttcil:
"Of course llnrloti called that
might be late. Hut what Is keep!
sister and Ha!, and Aunt Jen, Ua
Jim. Hetty and Clyde? Six people
vlted to a Christmas dinner and all
them late! Accident? Surely not
of them in a heap along the road si
unless each bumped into the ott
hurrying because they are late to *
dinner!" lionise was smiling even
fore a honk sent, her out side.
"Norton, please drive nie to Lari
crossroads. Maybe we'll meet sis
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see
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Me to Larion Crossroads. Maj
We Will Meet Sister;'
and Hal. May lie they will know w
the others are delayed. Sort of ? n?
center at the crossroads, anyway."
"Pshaw! Iion*i worry. They pr
ably think you will not have diiii
promptly at l o'elnfctt"Hut
I told each cue that we wo
have dinner promptly hccur.se I tltrhij
you boys might wish to hear the r
grunt a! P.nxter. Pn you suppose tl
!:ave all -one to tlm festival bef
coining hero';"
"Thai's it. exactly! Let's go, ti
Then we can all oome home together
a grRUd Christmas reunion ditint
ilorlbn interrupted.
"Pome home to <-o!d tm lu-y, dress!
and potatoes reunion dinner. ;
moan," l.ouise snapped.
Hurrying home und enting lunch, n
ton, with I.eolse a bit reluctimt, star
f?ir Ihixter. where a special festival
Christmas music and drama, an aim
mmve.inity affair, for many years,
inter. riv:n towns, would p.* prescni
at the Community Center playhou
Prir.os were :iw<.*rded to best prod
linns fmiu the two towns.
' The guests must have nilsund
stand my letter. Whatever !t is, ti
have ail 'misunderstood together,' I.
ise whined.
lie seemed unsympathetic to Louis
jJiTtiicr isn tpii'ssmns :
"Hut not one . ? out* guests are h
that l we. Ho you gltmi so Unci
buhl bond, or histor's fur?"
After the program lloram and 1.
Ise watched every means of o.vii
their guests, then luimwl home, an
jnj: at five o'clock. At sight of i
left-over dinner, l.ouise s> >hed:
"Never saw such a frost. What
Adam's earth could have happen*
What have wo?have I done to desei
such snubs?" She was almost sus
clous that I Tor ton had something to
with the absence of their guests. S
leaped to the Jangling of the te
phone. Anything was better than
ience?or was it?
"Ye?yes?yes?we'll be there?
once!" The receiver clicked.
"llorton. hurry. Someone needs y
?at Herald's Corners. Hal called. !
Hal and sister are not hurt, hut sor
one else. You run on nnd I'll stay
prepare beds."
Morton, IInl, and Louise's sister so
arrived with a man, woman, and sm
child who had been buried tinder
automobile after being struck by a I
and-run driver. When Hal found the
hours before, the> were unconselo
While administering to the injur
ones in the spotless beds Louise pi
vided, Uncle Jim and Aunt Jen i
rived with Betty and Clyde, son a
daughter-in-law, at exactly six o'cloc
"We were determined to be on tii
for dinner," Aunt Jen called lni
cently.
"Yes. you are la time?to help nui
these injured strangers," Louise t
swe red, trying not to look discomfit*
"Jim had too bad a cold to go to t
program at Baxter. So Clyde said
would drive our car and we would ;
come together. Clyde could not |
away from the store until noon. \
thought you would probably go to t
program If we were not here to hind
during the afternoon. And we'd *
here in time for your six o'clock d:
r.er. Let us help make these injur
ones comfortable. Or, we'll get t
dinner on the table while you atte
them." Aunt Jen rattled on.
"The date of the dinner's coldne
seemed not to matter. One thing I*
learned, that a cold dinner Is no lc
lialatable after eight hours, than f
two hours" wait. It's all because
two times?two dates for dinner
12 o'clock?and six o'clock! Two thin
learned today!" lx>uise recited to h<
self the text of the letter sent to h
guests, and as nearly as she could l
member it was worded:
"Can you come for Christmas
dinner? Come early if the men
wish to go with Horton to the program
at Easter. We women will
gossip the afternoon awny until
the men return. Dinner promptly
then 1"
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"Miami- a* >L\ - :'e; six lat?? guests
| Hut ii nil turned out vl6bt. Tjft* pool
? people wtc reficytfU liji !' i''s cotuloj
i in the afternoon. (1 ;i 1 said that sine*
I { bo had the afternuoo for driving in
J \vmii!i) Ii'isiu ! v drive !>v nay of if or
' } aid's Corners to s?m> J,o now via due'
> jest conjfficted. You and I. dear. af
tended the program together. Cik-.V
I .lim needed a driver Next time !'!
i . niaKo if plain tvliieb dinner hour to ex
| poet my truest.??sit one o'clock or ai
lie 1J*X ou ('hristii'.is I" Louis*
I ' siulled the next day after the injure*
he ' s^r;in*^',,s w,,ro on their way. and tin
>(|{ guests had returned to their homes.
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In- i \\ H is J1 irst Christmas !:
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nil ; !>y
;; Earle HooV.cr Eaton
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| jy IMG it{> the I'otc and telephone
X \ Without a nroment's prune,
()r by the iiirrlcss make it hnmc
To dear old Santa Clam,
' That Ik:pa's ISuy and Mama's Joy,
And Sister's Htccious Mile,
; While glad bell*, clanc n il gaily hang
IIis stocking up tonight!
{ "Ting-ling! ling-ling! Hello, helloI
/? that you Sun in, dear?
I lie. sure your reindeer hear your 'ff tioa
iVtien you are passing here.
If hat's thatY You'll tome and bring
drum,
A jumpuig-'jack atitl hail,
{ And other toys Jar little boys?
Hear Suint, you're best of all!"
' 'lis Christmas mom, art! to his shop
Old Santa homeward flies;
<be j 'Tis fire o'clock, hut open pop
j The bahy's roguish eyes.
' WVrr dead for sleep, hut out tcc crccj
' i And dress at onrc to gel
S | fT7iuf Santa kind. Hrfs left behind
i For Toddlekins. out pel.
ob- |
nor j From I'ole to Pole there's surely not
A babe more pleased than he.
ftl<l | And Imu he crbivsf lb'- happy tot,
!lht j 4nd gurgles in his dee.
iro- | The jumping pick, the ducks dint 'pinch,
lov ! The drum, the horns, the ball.
nry j Thr. chfdlts thai prep, (fir horse, the shecj
He tries to ml than :dl!
no! f
. . > ' On this his first glad Christmas lark,
,r .. j The toys with blocks he pells,
i He makes old hionfi wish the Ark
fjt, I Had landed somewhere else!
U S A soldier blue be breaks in two,
> A purtclttrc gives the drum,
I ' He fill* die air with legs and hair,
jgji And ihIrn- i> suckx his thumb!
i The Suttd'Mall's surds come to town.
! And soft is mutter's lap;
1)0 j Cleat up the wreck and snuggle down,
r??n . 'Tis tinio to take a nap
-O. Then rock-a bye. close each blue eye,
no my thirling. rest'
(He's fust a<lorp. with hahy sheep
**r- /fugged tight agninxi his breast!)
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DECEMBER 26, 1935
*i^bu Frances
; \... JGrinstead
OUH family ha<1 attended Christmas
services at tile church on
the brow of the hi!!.
It is just u "little brown church.' our.
3 of recent years it lias been modernized
wlib a furnace, ? basement for <ir.ir.-h
3 dinners. sue.! work tables and sand
|j piles in the Sunday school rooms. TV
t! grown ups like it better slr.ee there are
II more stud bicker oil lamps.
! "What else are you doiti? at your
church this week?" asked Uncle .Joe
as he spread fua napkin and J
n toward the turkey. rnele Joe 5>: a
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| "What Else Are You Doing at Your
Church?" Asked Uncle Joe.
: New I-hurinnd minister, with his eves
j usually set on heaven; but hi* does like
! turkey.
j "Why, nothing else," mother anI
sweted. "WJiul would we have ui the
church besides Sunday services and
r, the Christmas sermon, since we've left
oil* Wednesday night prayer meetings:"
"Tell yon w!?:tt I* i do if i\ were unchurch,''
replied watching father
carve. "I'd keep i : place \v;Jrm tram
morning till late night ail this week,
j with somebody serving tea to any who
; might drop In, and something going on
throughout the holidays. I heard Dave
say hist night there's nowhere to go
out the tiioviesrBrother
Jumped. "You woaldu ; expeel
me to go to church uroty day.
sir?" A
"I'?l dx it so you couldn't stay oway.
Would you iurn down a chance at an
old-fashioticd taiTy pull?"
"Then, since your rpother doesn't
have to get you off to School this week,
why shouldn't she go herself?"
"Are yo;: leaving me out, Jon?*
^ ; asked father, laying down the carving
~~ ' tools.
'Not by auy moans! This would bo
I a mighty good time to got your county
' agent 10 to.il you v.hai to raise next
| year instead of corn and hogs. Or to
| get your hand In at chess. By the
way, I'd nave all those big low tables
1 covered with games. rit bet there are
sets of anagrams and crihhage just going
tn waste in your attic?'"
"There are!" cried Dave, "and
wouldn't it be fuu, men), to get out our
old phonograph to show the fellows?
We get some good records."
"Yes. hut hurry, so you can wash
the dishes while I ose the phone.
There's going to he so nnicti going on
in thai church, we'll ho falling over
each oilier to get Into It."
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P. A. F,r\vin of Route 1, Matthews.
{ Mecklenburg county, has 25 acres in
J pasture which he says is one of the
most profitable fields on his farm.
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