Bringing Tobacco To Warehouse
Caught by the roving cameraman arc two Grayson
county farmers with their tobacco at the Tri-State Ware
house. By bringing this picture to The Skyland Post and
identifying themselves, they w'ill receive a pleasant sur
prise.
Fannins Notes
Many North Carolina counties
are reporting record cotton crops
this year. j
North Carolina's hybrid seed
corn crop this year is 58 times,
as large as it was five years ago.
Rayons require a relatively
short washing' period, ywo to
four minutes is usually enough.
Henderson county landowners
have voted in favor of a proposal
to organize a soil conservation
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Food Values
At Smithey’s
20 li>. bag
Oranges
at 79e
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Candy
Chocolate Drops, lb_35c
Broken Sugar Sticks, lb. _ 19c
CHOCOLATE COVERED CHERRIES, lb box_6!)c
Sugar, 31!);?. . . . 15c*
Queen of the West
Flour, 23 Ih. 81.80
13 oz. pkg. RaisiiiS“13e
Pecans lb~25c
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Many Other Values
Dolls
Toys
Book
Games
Smithey s store
“THE PLACE FOR BARGAINS”
West Jefferson,
N. C.
Wtyat JJule
Carbsi Jflean
There may he a “hidden wish"
in your Christmas cards this
year. Many familiar designs
nave special meanings tiiat are
centuries old.
Holly . ..
WELCOME
Hung on (lours ;md windows,
it invites celebrants in to share
the Yuletide spirit. Ancient
Homans decorated their .homes
with holly during religious fes
tivals.
Candles . .
BLESSING
Candles are burned in chinch i
; as a symbol of enlightenment.
It s an old Irish custom to place '
j a lighted candle m the window' j
on Christmas Eve, to mode the I
j Christ Child on his long journey i
troin heaven.
If Bells . . .
JS PEACE
1 An ancient legend ,vs that
1 will'll Ci'.nsl was iuiin. tin- devil
; tin'll and all the earth's lu lls
rani; in eclehrat inn, just as they
rinj; taday tm Christmas Morn.
Carolers . .1
HAPPINESS
j Carols originated in medievial
England. Wandering musicians
went from door to door singing
their wishes for health and hap
piness. just as Christmas cuds
now carry our affectionate Yule
tide messages to friends and
I loved ones everywhere.
district in the county. The vote
was 1130 to 12. The proposal now
goes to the State Soil Conserva
tion Committee for considera
tion.
Results ot a medical care sur
vey in Greene county are con
tained in a bulletin published
by the North Carolina Experi
ment Station.
More than 80,000 acres of to
bacco land have been brought
back into profitable production
with Oxford 20, a wilt-resistant
tobacco variety.
One of the earliest holiday
greetings is a crude wood cut of.
the Christ Child in a treasure
ship overflowing with good
wishes. It was produced by a
German printer in 1450 as a New
Year's card.
The candle in the window, a
favorite Christmas card design,
traces back to an old Irish be
lief that the Christ Child, out
alone in the cold, needs light to
find hos way on Christmas Eve.
The ruddy, jovial Santa Claus
of the Christmas cards was first
sketched in his present - day
J form by Thomas Nast, the car
toonist who created the G. O. P.
Elephant and Democratic Don
j key.
The Puritans would have
| frowned on Christmas cards. It
was the law in Massachusetts
j Paul Weston Says:
! It costs LESS to have your
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Open Forum
COLUMN
FOR THE VOICE OF THE
PEOPLE
Red Oak High School
Red Oak. N. C. i
Dear Mrs. Anderson:
My wife and I are still enjoy
ing the Skyland Post. We were
very interested in contrasting
the votes for President in our
own precinct here at Red Oak
with certain ones in Ashe county.
The vote here stood: Truman —
242; Thurmond 1; Dewey, 2. This
of course, was only one precinct
in Nash county, but it was al
most that one-sided in the entire
county.
Lansing school news is con
spicuous by its absence. Having
spent !) years there, I would j
quite naturally want to keep
“posted” on happenings there, i
Frank James, I believe, is their
new principal. Give us more j
school news if possible.
My check for $.1.00 is enclosed.
Sincerely yours,
Joseph A. Martin.
from 1 (>59 to 11581 that “Whoso-!
over shall be found observing
any such clay as Christmas ....
either by forebearing of labor,
feasting, or in any other way,!
shall be fined five shillings.” !
Exports of United States fish-j
erv products to European mar
kets have declined drastically
and can be expected to remain
at low ebb until means are
found to improve the foreign
exchange situation.
Meat production under Federal
inspection for the week ended
November 13, totaled 334 million
pounds.
According to legend, coffee
roasting started with Arab ef
forts to keep a monopoly on the
crop bv refusing to sell the raw
beans, heating them until they
would not germinate.
The ham. considered the most
valuable part of a hog carcass,
gets the roughest treatment in
the handling of market hogs.
A cotton crop of (190,000 bales
is now forecast for North Caro
lina in 1948.
25 Patients In
Ashe Hospital
The following are patients in
Ashe Memorial hospital this
week: Lee Jones, Clifton; Roby
Blevins, Grassy Creek; Mrs.
Flounce Roten, Gtrassy Creek;
W. A. Atwood, Furches; Mrs.
Vance Roten, Baldwin; Bryan
Kirby, Sturgills; Patsy Medley,
Tuckerdale; Mrs. Ruth Marsh
and son, Fries, Va.
Mrs. Carl Owens and daugh
ter, West Jefferson; Mrs. Jake
Goodman. Todd; Mrs. E. G. Cau
dill, Warensville; Mrs. Flora
Gregg and daughter, Lansing;
Ronald Lee Hardin, Laurel j
Springs; I). I). Dixon, Jefferson;
Miss Carolyn Cox, Clumpier. |
Mrs. Sylvester Roark and son,
Treetop; Mrs. Dorothy Calloway
and daughter, Jefferson; Mrs.'
Silas Creek News
—
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Sosso
mon, of Johnson City, Tenn.
spent Sunday with Mr. C. F
Dickson and Mr. and Mrs. Johr
Houck.
Rev. G. W. Dalton filled hif
regular appointment at Trinitj
Methodist church Sunday. He
and Mrs. Dalton were the din
ner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Floyci
Jones.
Mr. Cicero Jones, who passed
away Monday of last week, was
Carrie Jones and daughter,
Sparta; Mrs. Robert Miller and
daughter, Glendale Springs; Ed
ward Jones, Warrensville; Mrs.
Janie Miller, Tuckerdale; Mrs.
Coy Woodie, West Jefferson;
Mrs. Lucius Coldiron, Glendale
Springs; Mrs. Torn Childress,
Lansing and Mrs. Bruce Eller,
Helton.
buried in the old Jackson Tes
terman cemetery. Rev. Granville
Howell and Rev. E. R. McClure
conducted the funeral service.
Mrs. John Houck, who fell and
. injured her leg a few days ago,
,! has been taking treatment at
the Ashe Memorial hospital. She
is much improved at present and
| it is not thought that she will
have to make many more trips,
I The last report is that Roby
Rlevins, who is also being treat
l ed in the Jefferson hospital, is
some better.
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