RSDAY, APRIL 2, 1936 THE FRANKLIN PRESS AND THE HIGHLANDS MACONIAN PAGE NINE HAT ™ PLANT 1 THIS WEEK Courtesy I'armerS Federation News Flowers EET peas—spencer ^lixed. Garden \£XS—Early Blood T,urnii>, ty Egyptian. ^BAGE — Set frost-proof r Earlv Jersey Wakefield, |;eston Wakefield, Early Flat RROTS : Chantenay, Danvers. LE—Scotch, or Siberian. ItTUCE—Seed in cold frame trden: Grand Rapids (curled). ,ld frame only, N. Y. Wonder- ceburg. ' iJSTARI); Curly or smooth t'AS Smooth varieties ; First & Alaska, Early Bird. Wrinkle ties; Tall & Dwarf Telephone, las Laxton, Laxtonia, Gradus. lIONS : — “potato o.nion” sets er. Silver skin. )TATOES — Irish Cobbler, Iding Rose. ^DISHES — Cal. Mammoth, ,e, Saxon. INACH — Bloomsdale, for 'g and early summer. IMATO: Seed in cold frame; \ie B'cst, June Pink, Chalks JRNIPS; White Egg, Early Field Seeding .OVERS—Red, Sapling, Alsike, te Dutch. lASSES—Kentucky Blue, Red Orchard, Rye Grass., Lawn Pasture Mixtures.' Fescue. lSPEDEZA—Korean, Common, s Tennessee 76. THER CROPS; Oats —Ful- n; White Spring, Rust Proof, Burt, ipe; lade or plow in all manure lable on rest of garden. Lime en if possible, but leave lime manure bff potato land, nish all fruit tree pruning and nant scale spraying (spray oil, sulfur with arsenate of lead licotine sulphate, according to er’s directions'). When Cooking Eggs Apply Heat Gently Low heat is the rule in cooking eggs Decause eggs are a protein lood. High temperatures harden most proteins. Moderate heat keeps them tender. This fundamenta. principle of cookery, say specialists of the Bureau of Home Economics, applies to eggs, meats,'cheese, and fish. They say never actually boil an egg, but "soft-cook” or “hard- cook it, with water at the simmer ing point. Scramble eggs in a double iboiler, instead of directly over a flame. Poached or “dropped” eggs are slipped into lightly salted boiling water which c-eols a little as ‘each egg goes in, and is kept just under the boiling point until they are “set” sufficiently to lift out. Fried eggs never will be leathery or have hard edges if cooked in a covered ])an with a small ampunt of mod erately hot fat. The cover helps the enclosed steam to coat the yolk delicately with the white. Omelets, whether flat or fluffy, require slow cooking at low heat, with enough fat to keep them from sticking to the pan. In custards, eggs thicken the sweetened milk when the mixture is carefully cooked. Soft custard is stirred in a double boiler with the water just below boiling. It must be removed from the heat as soon as it begins to thicken or it will curdle. A baked custard is not stirred, ibut is se-t in a pan of water in the oven and cook ed at low heat. A souffle also needs .a very moderate oven, and will not fall if slowly baked in this way. Sponge cakes and angel food, because they contain so many eggs, require a moderate or low oven. 10DAY «"«• F^NK PARKER OCKBRIDeEk^vV^ Itch Ointment fe offer a remedy, prepared -es- allly for this store, guaranteed ;ive satisfaction for the relief of I or scaibies. Inoffensive to Quarter pound jar 75 cents. ■ ■ Perry’s Drug Store FRANKLIN, N. C. Develop Strong Bee Colonies in Spring A bee colony that grows strong and healthy in the slicing will be in a good position to gather large quantities of honey when the flowers and trees pijt forth their blossoms. To insure the development of a strong colony, C. L. Sams., exten sion apiarist at State college, urges beekeepers to examine their colon ies on a warm day in early spring. The colony should 'have a good queen, an abundance of food, plenty of brood comb, and a large force of workers. It should also be free from disease. If the colony has less than 15 pounds of stores, it should .be fed with honey taken from a healthy hive that has a surplus or with a syrup made from ‘equal parts of water and sugar. The condition of the queen may be determined by examining a few combs of .brood. Brood from a good queen 'will be in solid patches, with very few, if any, cells left vacant, Sams pointed out. Men’s good Work Shirts, special '• POLLY’S Specials for Saturday and Monday 39c 1 lOe $J^.49 ^$jT49 40-in. wide, 80 square Sheeting, yard 25f yard, fast colored Prints, special, yard Men’s $2.00 Work Shoes, special Men’s Dress Oxfords, special Ladies’ Print Dresses Ladies’ Oxfords, in white, black, brown 49c-75c-98t 98d $L00 Men’s good heavy Overalls, 79t special 15c Yard, fast colored Prints, lOc special, yard ' $2.00 Men’s Dress Hats, all colors 95«i and sizes, special POLLY’S “SELLS FOR LESS” FLOODS .... everywhere It almost seems as if there wasn’t a river east of the ^lissis- sipi>i that didn’t go on a rampage in the past two or three weeks. Such puny efforts as man has made to keep the waters under control seems rather ridiculous. Naturally, 1 have been thinking of floods I have seen. In 1889, when the ice coming down the Potomac made a dam out of the railroad bridge at Washington, all the lower part of the city was flooded. My brother and 1 got hold of .a boat and rowed up and down Pennsylvania Avenue, from the Treasury to the foot of Capitol Hill, in and out of hotels and rail road stations. I have seen the Mississippi river 65 feet above normal at St. Louis, the Ohio at Cincinnati up to the third story of buildings on the streets along the river. I saw all South Florida under water in the winter of 1925-26. I have seen our New York and New England rivers in flood so often that I have come to expect it every year or two. CONTROL Arthur Morgan The most effective job of flood control that I know anything about was done in the Miami River basin in Ohio, .after the disastrous flood tha? began on Easter Sunday, 1913. I’ve never seen it rain so 'hard for so long, even in Florida, as it rain ed all over Ohio, Indiana and Il linois that day. The state of Ohio and the cities and counties in the Miami Valley determined there should be .no more floods in that part of Ohio. The man who engineered that job was Dr. Arthur E. Morgan, now head of" the Tennessee Valley Authority, which is, among other things, a flood-control project. Turn a do'zen Arthur Morgans loose on the nation's flood problem, give them a free hand and a few billion dollars and the flood men- ance could be removed in a few years. REBUILDING , the blessing One effect of the floods in the thickly-settled East is bound to be an immense amount O'f reibuilding. Bridges and dams will have to be replaced, factories and other build ings repaired or replaced. It will take countless millions of dollars to set things to right. Steel and concrete will be used where wood answered before. I hat will make more business and employment for the “heavy” industries, and na turally a lot of work for artisans in all the construction and building tr^cics. This will be real employment, on work that m'ust be done and that is better for everybody concerned than “made” work. It seems to me that the floods may turn out to have been a blessing in disguise, by taking up a lot of the slack in in dustrial employment. BRIDGES .... the doctor The old-fashioned covered bridge, of which quite a number survive in the East, have always fascinated The early settlers “housed in’ their wooden bridges to keep the roadway free from snow and ice. It didn’t matter so much if a horse or wagon slipped sideways off the highway, but a loaded wagon on a slippery bridge could ‘easily go through the guardrail into the river. One of my boyhood memo'ries is of a flood that washed ,away the flooring and superstructure of an old covered bridge near my home. Our village doctor had been &ent for on an emergency call, across the river, but cotild not set out until long after dark. He saddled his horse and rode off through the rain. Not until after he had crossed the river did be learn that the bridge was “out.” A miracle? No, just an accident. The sure-footed horse happened to hit one of the 18-inch “stringers” that were all that was left of the bridge, and walked across in tbe dark like a tight-rope performer! FIRE wet hay I am watching now for reports of fires in barns, along the river valleys where the flood water has gone down. They always follow when hay in the barn has been thoroughly soaked, unless it is spread and given a chance to dry out. Spontaneous combustion from the heat generated by damp hay in the bottom of the mow started scores of barn fires in no^rthern New Eng land after the last big flood we had, nine years ago. Not all of the fires were siiontaneous, either, an insurance man told me, though proof to the contrary wa« hard to establish. Few companies write flood insurance policies, and few farmers would pay for them, any way. But they all carry fire in surance. Some day, in a more perfect world, perhaps we will all live in houses as fireproof as were the caves of our ancestors, and to build a barn of wood will be a jail of- fens'C. Monument $9.00 up WORLD’S BEST J^IARBLE AND (;RAN1TE--Direct Factory Prices. 307c savings guaranteed. Freight Paid, h'-rected if desired. Thousands sold every year. Send for Big FREE Catalog. U. S. MARBLE & GRANITE CO., Dept. A-3L ONECO, FLORIDA. Teachers College Delays Opening Special Term LATE CULLOWHEE, March 30.— Western Carolina Teachers college has postponed the ibeginning of the special six weeks of the spring quarter from Tiiesday, April 21, to ^Monday, April 27. The reason for the postponment is that so many of the schools have had to be prolonged on account of delays due to the bad weather of j the wiJiter. The plan is to run six days a week instead of the usual five days. In this way the same amount of time can be covered. This was done after the college was almost overwhelmed with re quests for permission to enter late. These requests have come from all over Western North Carolina. Without the change it would have been impossible to have admitted these individual.s., together with many others. By running six days a week and postponing the date, students may enter as late as May 1 and then meet the requirements of a regular summer term. The instructors for tlie sjiecial term will be Misses Sudie Cox, Nell Hinds and Winona Hoo'per, and K. L. Wood. About thirty-four courses will be offered and Dean W. E. Bird makes the comment that the col lege is thus offering the greatest and best special six weeks that it has ever offered. Sold by these Dealeysi HIGHLANDS W. S. Davis F. A. Edwards G. W. Marett Talley & Burnette SYLVA R. R. Fisher For the South’s favorite Seed Catalog, mail a post card to T. W. Wood & Sons. " Richmond, Va. New Goods AT Moses BlumenthaVs We have just received a large shi])ment of new dress goods in the latest materials and patterns—and you wdll find our prices reason able for the quality of the goods. We also have received a new line of Ladies’ White Shoes—pumps, ties, T-straps and sandals, at prices— SL69, $1.79, $L98, and $2.48 New Dresses, prices— 69c, 98c, $1.98 and $2.98 Ladies’ Hats at— 69c and 98c For men, we.have just received— Shoes, prices $1.98, $2.48 and $2.98 Men’s Hats 5'Oc, 98c, $1.48 and $1.98 Men’s Shirts at 50c, 75c, 98c and $1.48 Men’s Overalls at 98c, $1.25 and $1.45 Men’s Pants at 98c, $1.25, $1.50, $1.98, $2.98 For children, we have just received— Shoes at 65c, 98c, $1.25, $1.48 and $1.75 Overalls at 59c and 75c Caps for Boys 25c, 48c We invite you to come and inspect our new g-oods. Our 4)rices are right. Moses Blumenthal FRANKLIN, N. C. 1