Local Affairs ^
. Mrs. J. C. Cooke spent last week
visiting her sister, Mrs. E. K. White
ner, in Gastonia.
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Hayes, ot
Blowing Kock. are spending the
month in Daytona Beach. Fla.
Misses Marguerite and Josephine
Miller of Wilmington, were weck
nd visitors at the home ot their
mother, Mrs. W. F. Miller.
Mrs. R. B. Hardin, of Yonkors, N.
Y.. is spending six weeks visiting
at the home of her sister. Mrs. M. R.
M,'iddu:. and Mr. Maddux.
Miss Maisit? Jean Jones, "1 VVin
-ton-Salcm. Was a week-end visitor
at the home- of her mother. Mrs. J.
W. Jones.
Miss Helen Winkler. who is leach
ing at Pilot Mountain, N. C.. spent
the week-end with her mother. Mrs.
G. C. Winkler.
Mrs. Ben Miller and Miss June
Lee Russell spent the week-end in
Winston-Salem, visiting at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Greer.
Mrs. J. D. Councill has returned
from Bristol where she visited at
tfie home of a daughter, Mrs. R. H.
DeVault, and with a son, Mr. Frank
Council!.
Mr. Ed Underdown returned to
Wilson Tuesday from a brief visit
with his daughter. Miss Helen Un
derdown.
. Mrs. Paul Fox and children of
Marion, S C., and Mr. and Mrs.
Wendel W'lson of St. Petersburg,
Fla., are visiting at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. A. L Cooke.
Rev. J. C. Canipe was in Winston
Salem Sunday where he filled the
pulpit of the First. Baptist Church,
morning and evening, at the invi
tation of the pastor, Rev. Dr. Her
ring.
Mr. and Mrs. James H Councill
were in Raleigh last week, where
Mr. Councill attended a meeting of
state highway officials. Mrs. Coun
cill visited with relative:; in CI: a pel
Hill while away.
Mr. E. A. Russell, of Laxon, who
has been employed at Camp Davis.
N. C., for several months, is report
ed as being right seriously ill in a
hospital there. Last reports indi
cate there is slight, change in his
oortdii ion.
Mrs. Hard Trivett, Claude and
Geraldine Trivett. a grandson, Her
man Smalling. all of Piney Flats,
Tenn , visited Mrs. Trivet t"s broth
er, Mr. W. L. Henson, who remains
very ill at the home of Mrs. and Mrs.
J.' L. Reese.
Mr. Jim Brown, who is employed
in Cleveland, Ohio, was called here
last week 011 account ol' the serious
illness of his mother, Mrs. J. H.
Brown, who recently suffered a par
tial paralytic stroke. Mr. Brown re
turned to. Cleveland the last of the
week.
Mr. and Mrs. R. W. McGuire at
tended the North Carolina Hair
dressers' and Cosmetologists' con
vention at the Robert E. Lee Hotel
in.. Winston-Salem Monday and
Tuesday. Thomas Frank, Chicago
cosmetologist, was the principal
speaker at the convention. The Cos
metologists1 Association presented
the army with an ambulance during
the course of the meeting.
Miss Cora Jeffcoat returned last
Thursday from Burlington where
she had been called because of the
death of her sister-in-law, Mrs. W.
C. Jeffcoat, who was a victim of
a Christmas day automobile acci- '
dent. Mrs. Jeffcoat was liospitaliz- j
ed at Franklin. Va., on the on the!
way to Newport News, which was i
near the scene of the accident. She1
was never well enough to be re-|
moved to her home.
Maliba-HosleUer
Wedding is Announced
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Maltba, of
Shulls Mills, announce the marriage
of their daughter, Annie, to Corporal
James Hostetler, of Lush, Wiscon
sin. The wedding was solemnized
in Elizabeth City, N. C.. on Janu
ary 13. Mr. and Mrs. Hostetler have
established their home in Norfolk,
Va., where Corporal Hostetler is
stationed.
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Home and Gordon
Department to Meet
The Home and Garden depart
ment of the Woman's Worthwhile
Club will meet at the home of Mrs.
D. L. Wilcox on Thursday evening,
F?b. 10, at 8 o'clock, with Mrs. E.
L. Payne and Mrs. T. Len Cooke as
hostesses.'
Hall-Warren
Marriage Announced
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Warren, Sr.,
announce the marriage of theft:
daughter, Velma, to Corporal Amory
H. Hall, on Saturday, Feb. 5, at
Valdese, N. C. -j
Mrs. Hall received her edufatirfn
at "Cove Creek High School and for
the past several years has been em
ployed at a hosiery mill in Valdese.
Cpl. Hall, son of Mr. and Mrs.
N. H. Hall, is a graduate of the Pope
ville High School, Popeville, N. C.,
and has been in the service for the
past two years.
Cpl. Hall is stationed at Camp
Breckenridge Ky., and the couple
expect to make their home in Ken
tucky for an indefinite time.
LI. William E. Walsh, Jr.,
Marries Miss Van Houten
The marriage of Miss Loraine
Hduten and Lt. William E. Walsh,
Jr., was solemnized Tuesday after
noon at Bryan Memorial Church,
Cocoanut Grove, Fla., wit.h the Rev.
Albert D. Hagler officiating.
The bride is the daughter of Mrs.
H. A. Van Houten and the late Van
Houten, of Washington and West
chester County, N. Y. She attended
Barnard school, New York, and was
Double Pincers Movement
ITEMS FROM THE DEMOCRAT i
OF FEBRUARY 9, 1905
Quite a . umber of enrollments at:
the Training School during the past
week, and stil! they come.
Messrs. L. II. and M . L. Holla
have bought the mercantile business
of Hodge:: and Wilkerson at Haga
man, N. C-, and will continue busi
ness at the old stand.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Mast, of Valic
Crucis. have the deepest sympathy
of all their friends in the death of
their son, Mr. J. H. Mast, which oc
curred at Wallada. Wash-, on the
24th ol January.
Miss Julia, daughter of Mr. J. H.
Hardin, of Sutherland, is now on the
force of teachers at the Training
School. . Miss Julia has charge of
the primary department, and is well
qualified to fill a higher position on
the faculty.
Mr. George Maltba received a
phone message on Tuesday evening
that one of his sons, who was work
ing on the railroad at Wilson's
Creek, Caldwell county, had been
badly hurt- ? one leg and one arm
being broken ? but no particulars of
the accident have been received.
Contractor L. W. Cooper with two
01 his carpenters, Messrs. Charley
Moody and N. N. Colvard, left for
Jefferson last week to do some work
graduated from the Pelliam school,
New York.
Lt. Walsh is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. William E. Walsh of Miami and
Blowing Rock, N. C., and has lived
in Miami Beach most of his life. He
attended Culver Military Academy,
Universities of Miami and Florida,
and Cumberland University. He is
a member of Sigma Delta Kappa,
honorary legal fraternity and prior
to service practiced law in Miami.
Austin-Norris
Wedding Solemnized
Mrs. Pansy Austin, of Boone, be
came the bride of Clint Norris, ot
R. F. D. 2 in a ceremony performed
at the Baptist parsonagle in Boone
on January 28. Rev. J. C. Canipe
performed the ceremony.
Mrs. Norris has been engaged as
dietitian at Watauga Hospital for
some time, and has many friends in
this section. Mr. Norris is a prom
inent farmer and is favorably known
over a wide ar-?a.
Buy Hybrid Seed
Corn on Records
Farmers should be very careful in
their purchcases of hybrid seed
corn and buy only on performance
records made under North Carolina
conditions, said research men of the
State College experiment station and
directors of the N. C. Crop Improve
ment Association at a recent meet
ing at Raleigh.
They pointed out that some hy
brids which did well in the moun
tain and Piedmont sections were
wholly unsuited for production in
the Coastal Plain areas.
Experiment station tests showed
lhat the yield of some hybrids were
^io better, or even less, than the
yields of some of the standard va
rieties of corn already being, grown.
In other cases, certain hybrids gave
outstanding yields which were con
siderably above the best yields of
the purebred varieties now being
grown.
Hybrid corns do not carry names
such as "Jarvis" but are specified by
numbers such as U. S. 282 or N. C.
1032. A "W"' following the number
means that it is a white corn and a
"Y" shows that it is a yellow corn.
The Crop Improvement Associa
tion urges growers to consult Cir
tion gives the official performance
of hybrid seed corn. This publica
tion givet the official performance
records ?of the hybrids for 1942 and
1943. A free copy of these results
may be obtained by writing .he N.
C. Crop Improvement Association,
, State College, Raleigh.
on the interior of the courthouse at
thai place. The work on the court
house here is over until spring; the
windows are in, the walls prepared
for the plasterers, and the house is
locked for the winter.
Mrs. Jordan Hardin of Missouri,
is spending some time with relatives
in this and Ashe counties. We are
told that Mr. Hardin has sold his
fine farm in the west and will prob
ably buy property in Tennessee.
Mr. C. C. Critcher, who is enjoy
ing a very lucrative rail position in
the far west, with headquarters at
some point in the state of Washing
ton, is spending a short vacation
with his father, Mr. Adpm Critcher,
of Bamboo.
On last Friday morning two white
men, Holman and Meredith by
name, went to Uie home of an aged,
afflicted, harmless and respected
negro man at Holman's Ford, and
after demolishing his furniture,
turned upon the old negro and club
bed him into insensibility, leaving
him for dead. The brutes in human
form made good their escape and up
to this time 'lave not been arrested.
The old negro was still living on
Monday evening, but his condition
was considered very serious, and
his death at any lime would be no
surprise.
Recent Deaths.
MRS. MATTIE M. TRIPLETT
Mrs. Mattie Miller Triplett, aged
53 years, died on January 29, at
her home in Elk township. Fureral
services were conducted on Feb. 3
from the Mt. Ephriam Baptist
Church by Rov. Ross Greene and
Rev. Ben Triplett and interment was
in the cemetery there by Reins
Sturdivant Funeral Home.
Surviving are the husband, June
Vonley Triplett, and eight sons and
daughters: Clemon, Joe, Elmer, Mrs.
Otis Watsoh, Mildred, Leona, O'Neil
Triplett/of the home neighborhood,
and Hade Triplett, of the U. S.
Army.
W. J. HODGES
W. J. Hodges, 33 years old, died
at his home in the Mabel neighbor
hood Sunday, and funeral services
were conducted from the Mabel
Methodist ? Church on Monday by
Rev. Mr. Sterling, and interment
was in the nearby cemetery. Reins
Sturdivant Funeral Home taking
care of the arrangements. Surviv
ing are the widow and two chil
dren.
MRS. BESSIE DEAN HAMPTON
Mrs. Bessie Dean Hampton, i\ si
dent of Blowing Rock R. F. D. 1,
died Monday at the age of 54 year.;.
Mrs. Hampton had been in rather
poor health for some time, but it
was said that a rather sudden ill
ness resulted in her death.
Funeral services were conducted
Wednesday afternoon at 2- o'clock
from Friendship Methodist Church
by Dr. E. K. MeLarty, the pastor,
and interment was in the church
yard cemetery, Reins-Sturdivant
Funeral Home being in charge of
the arrangements.
Mrs. Hampton was a daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Hampton'- of the
Aho neighborhood, and her parents
survive, together with the husband,
Spencer Hampton, and a son and a
daughter, Hammond Hampton and
Mis Virginia Bentley. There are
ten living brothers and sisters.
GREAT BATTLE NOT FAR
AWAY. JAPANESE TOLD
New York. FFeb. 8 ? The Japa
nese people were tipped off by the
Tokyo radio today "that the United
States, by its military tactics afield
and its war production at home, is
aiming to destroy the Japanese
"strategic structure" ? and is in a
hurry to do it.
To get the most from your pota
toes, cook them' in their jackets, says
Mary E. Thomas, State College nu
trition specialist. }i you must peel
them, keep the peelings thin.
BLOWING ROCK
HI SCHOOL NEWS
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Carpenters are enlarging the new
home economics department. When
completed, there will be two rooms.
The sewing room will contain indi
vidual. built-in lockers, and the
kitchen will consist of three unit
kitchens, fully equipped .
Under the direction of Mrs Ri'in
king. former dramatic coach in the
Garden City schools. N. Y., practice
has been started on the junior play,
"His Women Folks." Mrs. Lewis and
Mrs. Iiamby are assisting Mrs. Keir.
king with this work.
The total amount of bonds sold
by the school during the Fourth
War Loan drive is now S5.725. Tony
Left iz is leading in the contest in
the elementary sajpfio! and Cabell
Grngg in the high school.
The hall; of the school building
are being repainted. Arrangemer.ts
for the painting of the classrooms
arc being made.
The third grade has sold enough
bonds to buy a jeep. The pupils are
very proud of this. They have
learned many songs about buying
and selling bonds. Their airplane
project is progressing, and they
hope to have "open house"' before
long to show these planes.
Save Just as Many
Lambs as Possible
It is as important to save iambs
after they arrive as it is to make
careful plans for lambing time, says
Dr. John E. Foster, in charge of re
search with beef cattle and sheep at
the agricultural experiment station
of State College. ,
Assuming that the eweo are in
proper condition for lambing, the
next step is io save as ??nany of these
lambs as practical, and then grow
them out satisfactorily," Foster
points out.
He suggests that the llock should
be looked at first thing in the morn
ing during the lambing season, about
twice during the day, and the last
thing at night before retiring. It
may even be necessary to spend!
some time during the night with
the flock.
For the first day after lambing,
the ewe should be given only fresh
water and hay. She should then be
gradually put on a feed of about one
and a half pounds of grain mixture
per head daily and all the good le
gume hay she will clean up. A
green winter pasture should be pro
vided wherever practical.
The iambs will start to graze and
eat grain and hay when a few weeks ,
old. If they are not getting enough
milk, they should be given a grain
mixture in a creep. A mixture of
two parts of corn, two of oats, and
one of cottonseed meal is satisfac
tory.
Ti> grow the lamb properly, it
should be fed indirectly through its
mother by providing an abundant
supply of milk, and directly by giv
ing it access to green pasture, good
legume hay and a grain mixture,"
Foster says.
NO NEWS, SAYS ROOSEVELT.
QUERIED ON FOURTH TERM
Washington, Feb. 8? President
Roosevelt was asked directly at his
news conference today whether he
would accept a fourth term nomina
tion and replied that there was no
news on that subject today.
FINNS WARNED AGAIN BY
U. S. TO QUIT GERMANY
Washington/ Feb. 8. ? The United
States has renswed a warning to
Finland that she must shoulder all
responsibility foi fighting at the
side of the Nazis, Secretary of State
Hull disclosed today. ?
RAF BLAST WESTERN GERMANY
London, Feb. 8 ? Strong formations
of Flying Fortresses, supported by
long-range Lightnings. Thunder
bolts and Mustangs, smashed at the
great industrial city of Frankfurt
in Western Germany again today,
climaxing all-day allied air opera
tions in^v.-hich perhaps 2,500 offen
sive sorties were flown from British
bases.
BILLIONS
Slightly more than a billion
pounds of food and other agricultur
al products were delivered for lend
lease shipment last November, bring
ing the total to lOMs billion pounds
for the first 11 months of 1943.
Farmers produced it all, and. will
save many American lives as a re
sult.
DIET
Because of a more intelligent at
tention to foods, Americans have
been on a better diet during the past
year than at any time in their his
tory, say nutrition experts with the
U. S. government.
"KCOLD
THREATENS
At the very first sniffle, sneeze, or any
sign of a cold just try a few drops of
Vicks Va-tro-nol up each nostril. If
used in time. Va-tro-ncl's quick action
helps prevent many colds from devel
oping.... And remember this, when a
head cold makes you miserable, or tran
sient congestion "fills up" nose and
spoils sleep-3-purpos? Va-tro-nol
does three important things. It <1)
shrinks swollcnmcmbranes, (2) relieves
Irritation. (3) helps
clear clogged nasal A
VICKS
Follow directions yr,, ? J.
to lower. - VATR<MIOl
COVE CREEK
SCHOOL NEWS
The pre-induction class at Cove ?
Creek is progressing very nicely. At
present there are 15 enrolled in the |
class. Several more are expected to j
enter this week. We are using as a '
basic text the revised edition of The j
Man and the Motor Car. Supple
menting this book is a number of >
magazines and bulletins for refer
ence.
We will for the next several ,
weeks discuss such topics as: The ?
Ro.'e of the Motor Vehicle in Ameri - j
ica at War: Driver Qualifications:;
Motor Vehicle Construction and ;
Operation; Vt-hicie Preventive Main
tenance and Automobile Conseva
tion: Elementary Driving Principles
and Techniques: Kules of the Road
and Advanced Driving Practices:
Map Heading ? Civilian and Mili-i
iary; and Selected Visual Aids.
After studying these topics, we
hope to take up actual driving
which will prepare the boys and i
girls to quality for school bus driv- ;
ing as well as military and civilian i
driving.
The Cove Creek basketball teams j
went fo Happy Valley last Tuesday ;
night. The score for the girls was ,
24 to 29 in favor of Happy Valley, j
The hoys won by a score 40 to 6. 5
Cove Creek teams also went to Lan- :
sing Friday nigh*.. Both sides put j
up a good fight. The girls were
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defeated by a 16 to 30 score, but
the boys won bv the score of 33 to
31.
Two games are scheduled for the
following week with Mountain City
and Boone on Tuesday ni^ht and
Thursday night.
The bond sales up to the present
are $10,120.85 for the high school
and 37,066.55 for the elementary
school, making a total for the school
of 517,137.40.
REDS ROUT 7 NAZI DIVISIONS
London. Feb. 9 ? The Russians
have captured Nikopoi, one of the
world's greatest sources of manga
nese, cleared the Nr.giu from their
nearby extensive bridgehead across
the lower Dnieper river and routed,
seven German divisions which left
15.000 dead an<>, 2.000 prisoners,
n their retreat, Moscow announc
ed today.
l.arge amounts of war material
were stlU only partially counted
and the midnight Moscow commu
nique pointed to a victory which
"has returned to the country one
of the largest industrial centers > /
the Ukraine."
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en's and Misses' Sport Jackets, Women's Wool. Silk and
J Rayon Dresses.
Women's, Misses' and Children's Wash
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Men's and Boys' Odd Coats and Pants, Men's Chino
Army Shirts and Pants, Men's OD Army Shirts and
Pants; Men's and Boys', Women's and Children's Shoes
and Oxfords.
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Boone. N. C.
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