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'Thursday, Nov. 16, 1950 Visitin' Tht By *Ches' Matthews What's all this business about not bein' able to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear? Don't you be^ lieve a word of it?time wuz? mebbe?but NOW?no tellin' what could or will be evolved from a sow's ear. We lean to the belief that a vprv satisfactory fascimile can "hold' just as much pride and pleasure anyway! Think of the Drugs derived from Coal Smoke. Of the filmy frocks that started out in foamjP milk pails?the syrup that used to be corn cobs an' the dyes that began life as little red bugs. (What a horrible thought!) All of which is but preambling to a bit of silk-purse-to-sows-ear project of our own and is related, here, because with the shut-inness of the winter months and the out-of-reach prices of most everything, perhaps you're feelin' kinda drab, in spirit and surroundings. We've a pocket edition of a cottage which, for a couple of years had been "occupied by Very Good Neighbors. Personally they're fine. 'Premise-orily' they'd no conception of common, ordinary cleanliness 'n sech so, we weren'ttoo sorry tchave them depart from thence, recently, nor were we | Call No. 174 for 51 Any Place a 51 Sylva, O < | LIMES NOW AV O \\ N ANT AH ALA Pulverize o J [ Lime 0 $1.40 per ton f.o.b. cai 1 J; Hewitt o J! Nautralizing value < j NANTAHALA TALC < o 0 Andrews, No f o 1 > i surprised to learn?after they'd gone?that a self-re*pectin' Pig wouldn't have poked his nose in the place long enough to grunt! After removing a vast accumulation of automobile parts, broken glass, shoes an' shucks; rakin' the yard fore an' aft and, literally, scraping' the mud from stoop and casings, the po' little house got spankin' new paint from its chimSINGLE, DOUBLE, Al 30-30 WINCHI 300 5 ????? 22 CALIBRE RIFLES Single Shot Automatic SYLVA COAL < Phone 71 ;; Special E )| on P O R T I THE DONNA o o Jt Have your j It HOLIDAY PRE 3! made from your favori Neighbors ney top to the basement door. If you've bought any paint an' cement an' nails an' window glass lately you'll know well an' good that what was left for operatin' on the "innards" of the place consisted, largely, of a fund of imagination which has never known an over-draft; a whale of a lot of elbow grease an' the 'leavin's'. Soap an' detergents?house maids knee and dish pan hands?heterogenous hopelessness. Oh, but you should see it now! (An' you'll 'scuse us, please while we preen slightly!) Nothin' cute and cunning. No ruffles on the range or tassels on the door knobs. This is a forthright little house?generously welcoming as an open palm and p'raps only a mite bigger! In one corner of the living room stands an old cherry cupboard of which we're very proud. Imagine how we felt when we found NAILS driven in it?to hang curtains or the baby's wash or something. Na turally, that had to be repaired and refinished first off. The sofa had a Broken Back and the same thing had happened ' to the Rocking Chairs as to the Stock Market back in '29! Plenty of braces?an' old fashioned scrubbin' ? a slip cover evolved from two worn out onesj and the tired old couch perked 1 up a' plenty. We put it against a partition wall?painted the wall and ceiling blue (we had the blue paint to start with!) hung a group of pictures ? above and j^ut some home made book shelves at each end. On these we put the lamps 1 we'd found thrown on the floor ITOMATIC SHOTGUNS I ESTER CARBINE I I MAGE o % LUMBER CO. Sylva, N. C. t !ach Week . X RAITS at ii HOE STUDIO ii < o photographic !! IETING CARDS It ! o ite snapshot or Portrait !t an appointment j! i it Any Time JI . n. c. i: ; < > 1 T" ??.????????????. i i TONE : o > MAILABLE ill O d Dolomitic Agricultural < > stone J; o o rs or trucks our plant o , N. C. 31 i over 100 percent J! j> * Jf & LIMESTONE GO. | ^ i rth Carolina J! v 4 > C f THE ST SEEKS COTTON TITLE V;'^H ,.'; i , ^JM MgjM gpflplflWB&r ' ' h JK(?r& '}&' %?'<& Vi,''"?,- '<M - v^il M^^pyji I :^H i ?'' ;>::^ ":.A 'V?-;-V^^B iter* * * liiaiiaMWlMBWMBIM Pretty blae^yed Bene BHee of Kanna polls is North Carolina's first candidate for the 1951 Maid of Cotton title. Miss Biles attended Pfeiffer Junior College and is now employed at Cannon Mills Company. The winner of the Maid of Cotton contest will make a 64,000-mile tour to thirty major United States cities, England. France and six Latin American countries as the cotton industry's goodwill and fashion ambassadress. She will be presented with an all-cotton wardrobe created for her by the nation's foremost designers. The contest is open to any single girl between the ages of 19 and 25 who was born in a cottonproducing state and is at least 5, feet 5 inches tall. Applications may be obtained from the National Cotfton Council, P. O. Box 18, Memphis 1, Tennessee. Deadline for entries is December L Addie Home Club Has November Meet Addie Home Demonstration club held the November meeting at the Club Workshop building with seventeen members present. Miss Mary Johnston,* County Home Agent, discussed the topic for the month, which was "Family Life." A demonstration on chair bottoming was given by one of the members. Hammering and sawing copper was also demonstrated! as the members made copper articles from a copper still which was donated to the Club by Sheriff Middleon. Refreshments were served by Mrs. Helen Brooks. The December meeting will be in the form of a Christmas dinner at the workshop at one o'clock, December 1, with each member, bringing a covered dish. Members will also bring handmade presents which will be exchanged. ? ' i.- i ? i.1 nL^AL uniCK placements in me uiam-i am-Wilkes commercial broiler areas for the week ending October 21 were^37 per cent above those for the same period last year. and minus shades entirely. We painted 'em?found some slightly soiled shades which we bought for fifty cents a piece?dunked 'em in luke warm suds and they're fresh as garden pinks. One rocker has a new 'rush' bottom we made of binder's twine. A little Grand-mothery one we bottomed with vari-colored RAGS, folded into strips and woven like children's kindergarten mats. Re-finished our prized gate-leg table (which had been ironed on, apparently!) and concocted a small chair-side one from a nail keg and a round of ply board. On the scuffed linoleum floor we used up a lot of odds and ends of paint. We'd enough tile red! to cover one coat?then, with a< sponge, we used up the little dabs I of yellow, blue and soft green we had, to stipple it all over. | We discovered a dreamy sort I Df wall paper for the three walls and the inside of the cupboard. It -las ol' planation homes an' carnages, people, meanderin' streams an' 'side wheelers'. (We could just set an' rock' and let our thoughts j irift into the long-ago an' far a-t vay!) Our tobacco canvas window cur-| ,ains hang as gracefully soft as; vould French marquisette and; jive the same effect, truly! To tell you about the flowerjarden air of bed room, kitchen ind bath we'd have to*'continue n our next'. Anyway if you'd :ome to visit our little 'rescued' louse you'd need to get no further han the living room to agree with is that, sometimes, Dreams CAN | )e MADE to come true out of Very Nightmarish situations. Theres no tax on Ingenuity an' iard work, y' know and we often eel the rewards are far richer vhen the prospect seems a com>osite of things impossible to start >ut with. What's pesterin' US most, now, s that our Badly Buffeted Budget von't permit us to keep the small ottage as an Ivcry Tower Retreat or "our own selves"! ifLVA HERALD AND RUT ,-^|APIT Raleigh, N. C., Nov. 14?It give me great pleasure to announc that at last some 90 years latethe South is beginning to win th war, suh. I have heard our governor? senators, and plain citizens cit how higher freight rates in th South are discriminatory. But no-\ comes a howl from the Yankee? Seems their beef is we ain payin' enough?at least in the tex tile salary field. One Seabury Stanton, a Ne\ Bedford, Mass., wearer-of-the blue, wants Congress to lift mini mum wages in the textile industr "to wipe out a competitive advan tage the South has over the North. Ole Wet-Eye Stanton says h has to pay an average of $1.06 1per hour, against a lower figur of 75c an hour in the South. Thi? he says, gives us an unfair advan tage. Not only that, but he complain because he says the Souther worker "is more flexible in hi thinking", blames Southerner? willingness to handle more ma nkiinoc ir\ tKo f onf t V"\ Of m net r V_il ilivo WV 1UV. t WilU W 4ft?V/Ub VI them are "first generation textil workers" trained on automati machines. Says further that modern mill of 450 looms woul require 158 workers in the Nort as against 118 in the Southwhere the folks apparently stil believe in trying to do an hones day's work. Seems Ole Damyankee Stantoi is worryin' about the textile in dustry movin' South, suh. Don' worry, podnuh?we'uns is so lazy so far behind times that it take us a little time to understand al about that ole . feather-beddin Jus' give us a little time, suh, ar we'll be just as onery as then damyankee workers?an' you cai pay us twice as much for half th< job. We'd-a l'arned it by now suh, 'ceptin' you named that ther< I labor organization a "union". A new, likely candidate foi governor of North Carolina ii 1952 bobbed up in all of the preelection, love-and-kisses campaigning by warring factions o Tar Heelia's Democratic party. He's Hubert Olive of Lexington In many respects, his careei parallels that of Senator Clyde Hoey. He's served in both house! of the legislature, and he's promiRi BgBWM|?^ByKCV.; y4|H^8M|J^>9K?PI ^I^B^HIBKKrafiK^MK^'-'^vi\t ^ '?*WBSi? S! flZ defies ** ?? Kirk-Dai Cnllowhee Road IALITE AL REPORTER s|nent Baptist. The Superior Coui e judge right now is heading a fund ? 'raising campaign for Wake Fores e College. Bill Umstead of Durham eithe s.Tgot off to a running start in th ej'52 for governor sweepstakes, o e else was pushed out as a blind b; v; conservative forces of the part> v^uaiuc uuiuisiuu piuvcu uii can, 't sprinter didn't always last unti - the finish. Umstead has lots o 1 friends and supporters, but woul v have to overcome the dual hand - 1 icap of being once-beaten for sen - ator plus the old east-west tradi y tion. Some folks say he can d - it, others say he'd be the easies " man to beat the conservative e could offer. And you can forge 3 talk about a deal for Kerr Scott' e support for Umstead, far as I cai 5,' find out 'tain't so. " j D. Hiden Ramsey, the Ashevill | editor mentioned as an entranl lS says "no". Says he has privat n plans that preclude such. That' iS smart. Doesn't pay to show you s'j cards too early in the game, wheth - er you plan to call the bet or not But few men can refuse the sirei e,song of a "public draft" to run fo c office. a Capus Waynick of High Poinl current ambassador to Nicaragu ^ now temporarily heading the Poin Four program, suffered a blow t< 11 u:_ 4 ? i ...; u *u, ills puiciniai ucuiuiuctt-y wiiii iii' '* death of T. V. Rochelle of Higl Point. Waynick has made n< n secret of the fact that he'd liki to ride in Number 1 for four years * Rochelle was slated to handle fi r' nances for the Waynick campaign s however, and a suitable replace } ment will be hard to find. Along about the middle of th< 1951 General Assembly you cai expect a statement from Waynicl as to what he plans to do. He' r up for a bigger ambassadorship? J either Mexico or Spain ? if hi stays with the State Department r North Carolina's 4-H Clul i camps attracted 3,076 Tar Hee . boys and girls this past summer . That number spent a week at on< f of the State's four club camps. This year the Mexican bear r beetle damaged foliage of whol< ; fields of soybeans, though it ha? s been considered a pest only or ; the garden bean varieties. MM nuii qht dou mSM^m 9|^9pfe^ ^j^S^^-Wk v*l?B5 ' Hi^ 'is Lncvro Page 3 >t M A 4 0 RALPM ilLLAMT NAOINI CONNIt M M JK J /Stag* and tcrotn ttar Optro'i ctlobrattd taprana I ^ NANITH FABRAT ^ ?111 5TIRN | :; /-(?ff Mutieal-comody ttar | Popular tporttcattor It "" 'GrijjtUl^pjKn^! e New paper designs, new tags, new seals ^ * ?in our large collection of the most < beautiful wrappings we've seen in years 1 s Ready for your selection now I ? mr v.j t nrifffitiiirt iiupKina ? packaged ? make lovely gifts, club 1 or party prizes. We\e some other a lovely numbers for your selection. THE BOOK STORE I Main Street In The Herald Building Sylva, N. C. jSm J*.-* fm BE D > P WmmM MM1 ' m the ^line! y/ ' / . / J ( / j /Cugyeaf enp/nes y/ / / 7tugge</fia/nes / / / / / 7Zuggec/ cats w All-welded cabs! Powerful / Valve-in-Head engines! Strong rear ax'ei anc* heavy-steel channel-type frames! Right R?l down the line, Chevrolet trucks are built for the rough-tough 'liliwv jobs and the big payloads. All par**' all units?like Chevro tra"* '**'00*?are engineered you should come in and sea utoe-Design Tracks i^.i i ipai iy^ 114^* Sylva, N. C. ' .
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