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Swannanoa New§ ■ CROY, CITY EDITOR—PHONE 3735 I; rs . Lena F. Peek l er vices Held I O ■Funeral services for Mrs. Lena I || p eo k of Swannanoa, who ■ Monday night were held at | rk’s Chapel Methodist church, l’ r Weaverville, Wednesday ■ rn o?n at 2 o’clock. The Rev. | B Dendy, the Rev. Mr. Rad ■ an d the Rev. Lindsey Howell ■ficiated. Burial was in the Kirch cemetery. ■Active pallbearers were grand ■ an d flowerbearers were Knddaughters. Honorary pall- Krers were friends of the family. ■Surviving are the husband, G. I p e ek; three daughters, Mrs. | v Holbert of Swannanoa, Mrs. K,le Brown of Quinton, Ky., and K. Millard Shook of Leicester; ft e e sons, Clarence and Clenord ■<. of Swannanoa, and the Rev. Kie Peek of Salisbury, Md.; and ■ grandchildren. ■ Tread the ads too: — Kan nanoa Presbyterian lIXILIARY MAKES ■ecial offering Khe Women’s auxiliary of the ■an nano a Presbyterian church ■t Monday, November 18, at ■ p. m. at the home of Mrs. ■on Connelly. Mrs. Arnold ■jtt, president, conducted the ■ting. A special offering for the ■e mission emergency fund was ■en. ■rs. E. H. Capps, Mrs. E. N. ■'ell, and Mrs. R. D. Alexander, ■iibers of Mrs. T. J. Hunter’s ■rip. were hostesses. ■read the ads too: — leek Who’s Here! Hr. and Mrs. H. E. Burnette of ■annanoa are parents of a lighter, born October 17, in St. ■eph’s hospital in Asheville. ■read THE ADS TOO! ftp CROSS PROVIDES ■creation for Ildiers overseas Bontinuing services to Ameri ■ troops abroad, the American ■ Cross today is participating ■the operation of upwards of B clubs, rest homes, and other Beational facilities for soldiers ■seas, according to word re- Jed by Thomas S. Sharp, chair- H of Black Mountain-Swannan ■Red Cross Chapter. ■r. Sharp said the Red Cross is ■crating with the Army in ■ating the recreational facili ■ under a new plan which is ■ied in detail in a booklet, Btierican Red Cross Overseas ■rations in World War II.” The wlet soon will be available to ■ public at the chapter office, ■nder the new plan, the army ■ supply quarters for club oper ■Hs, furnish general mainten- H personnel, and operate can- Bs within the clubs; the Red Bs will provide trained person ■to conduct recreational pro- Bns. B is reported that from Decem ■ 1942 to June 30, 1946, Red Bs had net expenses of $75,- ■353 in operating off-post and Bost clubrj, rest homes, and ■mobiles. i P°w to Get What Ask For . . . B K k by name and get the the quality, the price want. ■ ou can count on this when buy brand-name mer- Bpandise because any article Barked with a manufac- B lrer ’s name must come up B* standard. It must be good B >t wouldn’t be labelled. Kj COR DEPENDABLE, I BRAND NAME ■ ‘ BCHANDISE COME TO I PORTER & I FRANKLIN I Swannanoa, N. C. I Phone 3865 KOREA TEAM \ iHI if. ■ - ,v,. SEOUL. KOREA—The long and short of the American Red Cross staff in Korea Is Fannie Furman, hospital su pervisor from Beloit, Wis., who stands 4 feet 10 inches against the 6 feet 4 inches of James Kearney, supply of ficer from Barre, Vt. (American Red Cross photo) Funeral Rites Fcr D. F. Shape Friday o Funeral services for D. F. Shope, 71, of Swannanoa were held Fri day, November 15, at 2:30 p. m. at the Berea Baptist church. Mr. Shope, a life-long resident of Swannanoa, was well known in this area and was an active farm er until he became ill about five years ago. He died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. E. B. Burnette in Biltmore. Besides Mrs. Burnette, survivors include four sons, Talmadge L., T. C., and Joe Shope, of Swan nanoa, and John T. Shope of Fay etteville, and two other daughters, Mrs. C. F. McMillan and Miss Margaret A. Shope, both of Swan nanoa. Pallebarers were Baxter Shope, Mark Ray, Ralph Dewese, Sam Stroupe, and Walter and Bud Hughey. Interment was in the Berea church cemetery. READ THE ADS TOO! OES To Give Benefit Dinner 0 The Swannanoa Eastern Star No. 132, will give a turkey dinner Wednesday, November 27, from 6 p. m. till 8 p. m. The proceeds will go to the Masonic and East ern Star home at Greensboro, N. C., where a new hospital is being built for the care of the aged and homeless of the home. The menu includes turkey, dress ing, gravy, cranberry sauce, peas, glazed carrots, potato salad, cel ery, pickles, rolls, apple or pump kin pie, coffee or milk. Admission will be by ticket only. Tickets may be obtained from members of the chapter in Swan nanoa, and from Mrs. Willa Brown, Miss Ruth Gilbert, Mrs. Maurice Harrison, and Mrs. Nan Burnett in Black Mountain. The committee in charge of ar rangements are Mrs. Lucy Frank lin, Mrs. Nell Martin, Mrs. Vella Mae Stevens, Mrs. Nell H. Porter, Mrs. Frances Whissenhunt, Mrs. Sidney Croy, and Mrs. Edna Cloud-worthy matron. A bazaar will be held in con nection with the dinner. Say You Saw It In The NEWS * Shoes are still on the shortage list. Don’t you be caught short. Bring your shoes to us for expert re pair—longer life. FULL SOLES A SPECIALTY C & C SHOE SHOP SWANNANOA, N . C. Phone In Your Local News In The Spotlight By Quentin Enlow The Swannanoa High school boys’ basketball team participat ed in their initial practice session of the season last week, and from all indications, will send a talent ed cage aggregation; after the 1947 Buncombe County champion ship trophy. The local boys, who won the crown last season by whipping a tough Candler crew in the finals of the Buncombe meet, expect to go places again this year under the tutorship of Head Coach Woodrow Patton. Patton, who was a star Asheville City League eager in 1944, will be assisted by “Chick” Hipps, another top-flight performer who gained a cage rep utation at Western Carolina Teachers’ college. Attending last week’s opening practice session were four varsity lettermen. Richard Sides, who was selected for the all-tournev team last season, returned to his old nivot slot. Jay Lynn Burgess and Ned Straehla played at forwards during the half-hour scrimmage, and that’s likely the spot each will fill during the forthcoming year. Kenny Mills, a three-year varsity lad, dished up things from his old guard position, while Eu gene Harper took over the guard position vacated by Alger Rain water last year. Coach Patton will have plenty of reserve men to bank on during the season. John Lee, Bill McMa han, Howard Edmonds, Gilyard McClure, and Quentin Enloe will alternate when the first-string lads take a rest. Sam Patton, who is now guiding the Asheville Bombers around the professional circles, coached the locals to the 1945 Buncombe Coun ty championship. The Swannanoa team plastered a small Red Oak squad 52-15 in the eliminations, trounced Valley Springs and Weaverville by healthy margins, and took the trophy with a 50-35 victory over a shifty team from Candler High school. The local youngsters will take time out from basketball during this week to don football garb for their closing tussle of the season at Valdese Friday night. Coach Brock Burgess indicated his team would be at top physical strength for the skirmish, but reports from the Valdese camp show the locals will have to display a smooth at tack if they dent the victory column Friday evening. While the sports parade is wind ing down its never-ending path, you Be A Good Sport, and I’ll see you at this same spot next week. READ THE ADS TOO! METHODIST WOMEN ENTERTAIN VETERANS On Tuesday, November 26, at 6 p. m. the members of the Women’s Society of Christian ser vice and the guild of the Swan nanoa Methodist church will enter tain all veterans, men or women, and their families at a Thanks giving dinner in the recreation room of the Swannanoa Methodist church. Two hundred invitations have been mailed for the dinner. The committee in charge of ar rangements is made up of the fol lowing people: Mrs. 0- E. Croy, ‘pres., Mrs. Nellie Wilkins, chair man of the menu committee, Mrs. Jess Mills, and Mrs. Claude Mc- Clure. Miss Inez Allen, superintendent of the Sunday school, is in charge of the program. READ THE ADS TOO! CI,OSE for vacation Schools in Swannanoa will close at 3 p. m. Wednesday, November 27, for the Thanksgiving vacation. They will reopen Monday, Decem ber 2. HERE YOU’LL FIND * Experienced men to serve you. * Esso Products the finest money can buy. * Friendly Service. PORTER’S ESSO STATION Swannanoa, N. C. j Folk-songs And lallads From Hie Valley 0 By Artus Moser Swannanoa, N. C. o To those of my friends who won der why I am so very much inter ested in the ballads and folk songs, these crude and illiterate composi tions of the common people, I will say that there are many reasons for my study and enjoyment of these compositions, only a few of which I have space to mention here. Os course many other peo ple feel as I do about these songs or I would not be presenting and commenting on them week after week in this column. Some wonder why I do not con trast these with the great classic al music and the great operatic performances and the great sym phonies and choral groups, which our common people should know about and appreciate more. Now my job is not to convince anybody of anything. All I can say is that whenever the best folk music, both vocal and instrument al, is presented at its best, and when it is presented by talented and well practiced performers, it will rank with the very best music of any type. All literary authorities agree that the ancient folk ballads are classics in literature and should be so considered. They are class ics not because these scholars and others who love literature con sider them to be so, but because they have the qualities and char acteristics of the classical; that is, they have vitality to endure down through the years; they have ability to interest all classes of people; they have intellectual and emotional qualities of great appeal; and they have rugged, ex act, and effective use of language, so that they are understood by all who read them or hear them sung. Most of the folk songs and ballads that I am quoting here except the local or American ones, are known all over the world. Most of them are to be found in many languages. To me that makes them a strange and unusual kind of thing. No one knows who first composed them, or where they ori ginated. There is no one “correct” version. Because it happens to be printed in a book doesn’t mean it is the original and therefore the correct copy. There is no such thing as an original copy. The scholars and others who have made a special study of the folk songs believe that the best versions or copies of the English and Scottish ballads are to be found in Ameri can. They give many logical rea sons for this belief. They say, for instance, that the descendents of the early English and Scots who came to these shores were an un usually vigorous and venturesome sort of folk, generally speaking, and that they believed in living life to the fullest and of draining the cup from the sweet brim to the bitter dregs. That is to say, they had to take it all in their stride. It followed that they loved to dance and play games, sing, play the fiddle, and pick the banjo, and get all the fun out of life they possible could. Even so, life lived in any time and in any way at all was and still is bound to have much tradgedy, much sorrow, much trouble; and it required much patience to live and get through with it. It followed as a natural result that they had to bring all these things into their songs and their music. That help ed others to share these things with them. That made them all neighbors and friends. It made them all common people. Here is a ballad, for instance, that is very tragical, and appears in many versions in many coun tries of the world. A woman sung this to me not far from here along the French Broad valley. It is called: EDWARD How come that blood on your shirt sleeve? My son, pray tell it unto me. It is the blood of the grayhound That run that fox for me. It is too pale for your old gray hound My son, pray tell it unto me; It is the blood of my young brother That hoed that corn for me. Now what did you all fall out about ? My son, pray tell it unto me; Because he cut yon holly bush That might have been a tree. O what will you tell to your father dear? SWANNANOA P. T. A. HEAR PROGRAM ON HEALTH Members and friends of the Swannanoa P. T. A., meeting to day in the Swannanoa school cafe teria. heard a program on health, presented by Mrs. Eldredge Cog gins, program chairman. Mrs. Arnold Powell, president of the P. T. A., conducted the meeting. When he comes home from town I’ll set my foot in yonder ship And sail the ocean round. O what will you do with your sweet little wife Pray, son, now tell it unto me I’ll set her foot in yonder ship To keep me company. O what will you do with your three little babes? Pray, son, now tell it unto me. I’ll leave them here in the care of you For to keep you company. O what will you do with your house and your land ? Pray, son, now tell it unto me. I’ll leave it here in the care of you For to set my children free. READ THE ADS TOO! B°tty Deal Chonen Sponsor Miss Betty Deal, student at Bow man Gray Medical school, has been chosen sponsor for the Thanksgiving dance at the school. READ THE ADS TOO! HOLD REHEARSALS Young people of the Swannanoa Presbyterian church held their weekly choir rehearsal at the home of Joe and Jane Connelly. They are practicing for a special Thanksgiving musical program. Adult sponsors of the choir are Mrs. W. H. McMurray, Jr., and Mrs. Paul Patton. Barbara Ward, president, is the accompanist. READ THE ADS TOO! UNION SERVICE AT WARREN WILSON Members of the Swannanoa Presbyterian church have been in vited to a union Thanksgiving ser vice at Warren Wilson college, Wednesday evening, Nov. 27. READ THE ADS TOO! —O. M. Alexander will attend the Duke-Carolina football game Saturday. CHECK | Your Printing Needs 1 . . . NOW! 1 DON’T WAIT UNTIL YOU NEED A RUSH JOB! Check your . ~|J printing needs now and call 4101—The Black Mountain News... - A representative will be pleased to call on you...and assist you I with your printing problems. M CHECK THIS LIST 1 You May Need Some of These Items Now! H B Letterheads * Order Blanks jj ■Envelopes ■ Business Cards 1 ■ Statements ■ Tickets * Shipping Tags m Filing Cards B ■ Posters ■ Hand Bills I ■ Office Forms * Sale Bills I ■ Window Cards ■ Post Cards 1 1 NOTICE—We have sufficient personnel to handle short notice I .1 print jobs at anytime. Type faces to suit your choice.—Superior | ; printing means everything in your correspondence. | ' jj| For Any Type of ADVERTISING - COMMERCIAL PRINTING j ] Telephone: 4101 lb The Black Mountain News ,;jj Thurs., Nov. 21, 1946—BLACK MOUNTAIN GUCO NELWS—I Asheville to Have Audubon Lectures o This season for the first time Asheville will have the Aubudon Screen Tours, famous programs of the National Aubudon society. Anyone wishing to obtain season tickets for the lectures should do so soon, as only 120 remain to be sold to make a complete sell-out. Since they were placed on sale a week ago, 646 have been sold, according to an announcement by Burnley Weaver, chairman of the arrangements committee. The first of the five illustrated lectures is scheduled for Dec. 2 and there will be one a month for j the fol’owing four months. All will be in the auditorium of the David Millard Junior high school. The nation’s foremost natural history lectures will present out door America, its wild-life, birds, | animals, fish, flowers and scenic beauty. Each lecture is illustrated with all-color motion pictures— the world’s finest nature photo graphy. Season tickets for adults sell for $2, for students sl. Tickets and folders, giving full details about the entire series, are available at Allenstand, 16 College street. READ THE ADS TOO! HOLD PRAYER MEETINGS I Dr. Nelson Bell’s Sunday school class of the Swannanoa Presbyter ian church are holding a series of weekly cottage prayer meetings. This week’s meeting was held Wednesday evening at the home of O. M. Alexander of Grovemont. READ THE ADS TOO! Candle all eggis put on the j market for sale. It doesn’t pay to I take a chance. Buchanan’s 5 i c 0 f Store Swannanoa, N. C. Phone 3673 “HEADQUARTERS FOR SANTA CLAUS” AND Christmas Toys BE WISE—SHOP EARLY Use Our Lay-Away Plan TO ATTEND CAROLINA-DUKE GAME Among those from Swannanoa who expect to attend the Duke- Carolina gamk at Chapel Hill Saturday are Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Croy and son Walter, Ralph Wil kerson and son, Dr. and Mrs. Hu bert Clapp, and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Alexander. READ THE ADS TOO! Food stored but not used is food wasted, say home management specialists with the State Col lege Extension Service, in stress ing the importance of learning the best ways to store foods. 1 Hang on to vour SHIRKS BONDS Don’t cash in an invest ment that is worth more ... Pays more... year after year. Banks sell a Christmas gift that grows in value through the years— U. S. SAVINGS BONDS If you need money for a sound purpose SEE YOUR BANK The Swannanoa Bank & Trust Co. Swannanoa, N. C. Your Deposits Are Insured Through $5,000 Page 7
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