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OLD FORT
*" VOLUME III
OLD FORT, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1930
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NEWS
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NUMBER 33
THE OLD FORT NEWS
The Old Fort News is pub
lished each week in connection
with the Marion Progress.
MISS GERTRUDE DULA,
Editor and Business Manager.
SACRIFICING BEAUTY
TO TRAFFIC
American cities are sacrificing
their natural beauty in efforts to
provide relief for increased automo
bile traffic. Charles H. Cheney,
chairman of the Committee on City
and regional planning of the Ameri
can Institute of Architects, takes
this view. In many municipalities, he
declares, great avenues of trees are
being cut down to adapt streets laid
out for a horse-drawn era to the
needs of the motorist. These trees,
he says, are "the only saving grace
to cover up the 90 per cent of bad
design and poor architecture with
which our towns are so carelessly
i filled." He goes on, according to a
recently issued press bulletin from
the Institute:
Everywhei'e the inci'eased use of
the automobile, demand for traffic
relief, as well as for airports, parks,
and new and enlarged business cen
ters, is requiring enormous changes,
particularly in the widening of the
streets laid out for a horse-drawn
era. The smaller cities' of the coun
try, even the small towns, need ma
jor street plans and other compre
hensive plans as badly as the big
metropolitan areas.
These plans are everywhere caus
ing the cutting down of great ave
nues of trees for street widenings
and extensions. In many cases these
tree cuttings are needless and avoid
able. Our cities are becoming year
ly uglier and more forbidding as
they are gradually being denuded
of the fine old trees and shelters-of
gx-eenery that hid their tawdry ap
pearance.—Literary Digest.
BIRTHDAY PARTY
A birthday dinner of much inter
est was given on Wednesday even-1
ing, May 7th, at 7:30 o'clock, at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Harris |
at Sugar Hill, at which time the'
joint birthday of the host and hostessj
was celebrated. Mrs. Harris was 71 :
years of age while Mr. Harris, whose
birthday falls on the same day, had j
attained the age of 77. Before her,
marriage Mrs. Harris was Miss Jo
sephine Ledbetter of the Sugar Hill
section. j
During most of the 54 years of
their married life Mr. and Mrs. j
Harris have lived on their farm at1
Sugar Hill. They have two children,
Mr. -J. R. Harris of this place and;
Mrs. M. R. Nanney of Sugar Hill.
Guests at the birthday dinner in-j
eluded children, grandchildren, and
great-grandchildren. Those present j
were Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Harris, Mr.
and Mrs. Ralph Harris, Mr. and Mrs.
Lee Allison of Old Fort, Mrs. L. C.
Harris and children of Asheville,
Florine, Blanche, Austin, Woodrow;
and J. R. Harris, Jr.', of Old Fort. !
U. D. C. MEETS
The members of the Old Fortj
Chapter of the U. D. C. held their
regular monthly meeting at the
home of Mrs. S. F. Mauney on
Thursday afternoon. The president,
Mrs. J. B. Johnson, presided. The
devotionals were offered by the
chaplain, Mrs. S. M. Wilkinson. A
le.-.ter from Mrs. E. L. McKee, the
"M^ate president, was heard by the
chapter, after reports on the various
U. D. C. activities, and a discussion
of ways for raising funds. Articles
from the confederate veterans were
read by Mrs. S. M. Wilkinson, Miss
Gertrude Dula and Mrs. George
Sandlin.
During the social hour delicious
refreshments were served by the
hostess.
BRIDGE PARTY
A large crowd attended the ben
efit bridge party sponsored by the
Woman's Club which was given at
the attractive home of Mr. and Mrs.
George Moore on Friday evening
with six tables in play, "the names of
those present were written on slips I
of paper and the winners drawn j
by Master Bert Moore at the con-!
elusion of the game and several
prizes were distributed at this time.;
A delicious salad course made a per-!
feet ending to a very pleasant even-;
ing.
Out of town visitors were Mr. and
Mrs. J. Obie Laughridge and Miss1
Prease, sister of Mrs! Moore, who
were house guests of the hosts for
the evening.
A geography printed in 1804 has
been found in a library in Indiana, j
LOCAL AND PERSONAL
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Sweeney re
turned to Johnson City on Sunday
afternoon after spending the week
end with homefolks in Old Fort.
Bill Mullens of Nashville, Tenn.,
accompanied Mr. and Mrs. F. P.
Sweeney home for the week-end.
Holland Ross visited relatives in
Old Fort on Sunday.
(George Bradley and Alvin Brad
ley of Kingsport, 'fenn., were in Old
Fort on Sunday to visit their uncle,
John S. Bradley, who is very ill.
Mr. and Mrs. George Lee and
Mrs. Pearl Lee Gilliam of Asheville
were guests of Mr. and Mrs. John S.
Bradley on Sunday.
Miss Mae Campbell of Charlotte
is assisting Mr. and Mrs. Bob Pad
gett in the B. & J. Cafe this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Grover Crawford of
Plendersonville, were guests of Mr.
and Mrs. John S! Bradley.
Don Y. Grant, who has been em
ployed at Blue Ridge, Ga., is spend
ing this week with his family in Old
Fort.
Robert Wilkerson returned to
Johnson City on Sunday after a
brief visit to Old Fort.
Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Westermann
were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W.
H. Hawkins in Marion Sunday.
Clyde Miller, Jr., has returned
from Richmond, Va., where he spent
several days on business.
Miss Edith Rowe Grady spent the
Week-end in Wilson with her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. George Grady.
Mrs. Mattie Tomlin and daughter,
Claudia, of Harmony, N. C., are iM.e
house guests of Mrs. S. F. Mauney
this week.
J. L. Nichols of Marion was a vis
itor in Old Fort "on Friday.
J. R. Harris attended the ball
game in Asheville on Friday.
Mrs. Gordon Grant and daughter
are visiting relatives in Old Fort.
Mr. Fisher of Saluda, telegraph j
operator at Dendron, is stopping at!
the Mauney House.
Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Epley willj
will leave this week for Iron Gate,!
Va., where Mr. Epley will conduct!
tome experimental work for the
Iron Gate Tannery.
Mr. Van Newkirk, division super
intendent, visited the tannery this
week.
Mrs. Obie Laughridge, of Gaines
boro, Tenn., was the guest of Mrs.
Geo. Moore on Friday.
Jphn S. Bradley remains quite ill
at his home in Old Fort.
J. C. Sandlin is seriously ill at his
home in Old Fort.
Mrs. J. L. Lackey is confined to
her home by illness.
Harry Noblitt made a business
trip to Asheville on Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Tyson of!
Black Mountain visited the former's
sister, Mrs. Alice WTebb, on Sunday.
Mrs. Georgia Grant spent Monday
in Asheville.
Miss Natalie Epley and Miss Mar
ion Nelly of Asheville visited
friends and relatives in Old Fort on
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Padgett of the
B. & J. Cafe have postponed their
trip west for a few weeks.
Francis Sabom spent several days
last week in Asheville, the guest of
his cousin, Hardy Lail.
Quick Cure for Obesity
As Falsta-ff, Sir Herbert Tree wore
a rubber suit, which was blown up like
a bicycle tire for the enormous size
necessary for Falstaff, writes Con
stance Collier in "Harlequinade: The
Story of My Life." It was a contin
uous duel between Ellen Terry and
Herbert Tree as to who should get
the better of the other. They would
think out elaborate jokes. But one
day the joke went too far. Ellen
Terry took a, hatpin and stuck it into
Tree's enormous belly at the beginning
of a long scene. Falstaff slowly began
to deflate, and when the scene ended
he came off with his clothes hanging
in festoons around him. Ellen Terry
was nowhere to be seen. She had
locked herselfMn her dressing room.
A REQUEST
Old Fort people are reques
ted to send news items for the
Old Fort News page, in the
Marion Progress, to Miss Ger
trude Dula, editor of this page,
and not direct to the Progress
office. This is to avoid the same
news item being printed twice
on the page. Mailing boxes for
Old Fort News items will be
found at the Old Fort Drug
Store and the Bradley Drug
Store. Postoffice Box 191, Old
Fort, N. C.
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France Has Monopoly
on Roquefort Cheese
The pilgrim fatlier of all cheese in
America today is Roquefort, which
can trace its "bhie blood" as far as
the First century, when riiny remarked
about its excellent flavor.
Attempts have been made in the
United States to duplicate the famous
French product, but such experiments
have been fruitless, as the ideal curing
conditions of Aveyron, France, can
not be reproduced anywhere in the
world. The wholesale price of the
imported Roquefort is so low, and
the flavor so appetizing that American
hostesses are purchasing it ,in greater
quantities than ever before.
Epicures bow their heads in respect
to the shepherd whose misfortune was
responsible for its origin. He left his
lunch of barley bread and native
cheese made of sheep's" milk in a cave
near the town of Roquefort, in south
eastern France, to keep it cool until
noontime. A sudden storm arose which
forced him to forget abouj his lunch.
Two weeks later he passed that way
again, and thought about his aban
doned food. He found the bread
worthless, and the cheese covered with
a curious culture mold. His curiosity
and hunger being great, he nibbled a
bit, and found the cheese had a flavor
surpassing any food he had ever eaten.
—Chicago Evening Post.
Three Idioms of Latin
Tongue Long Employed
Ecclesiastical Latin differs from
classical Latin in various ways, these
changes being due principally to the
origin and derivation of ecclesiastical
Latin. Originally the Romans spoke
the old tongue of Latin known as the
prisea latinitas. In the Third century
B. C., Ennibus and a few other writ
ers \ rained in the schools of the
Greeks made certain changes and, en
couraged hy 1 lie cultured classes, thus
developed the classical Latin. The
mass of the Roman people, however,
continued to speak the old tongue, and
after the Third century there were two
separate idioms. The necessary con
tact between the two classes produced
still a third. When the church devel
oped a Latin it was necessary to em
ploy a language which would appeal
:o the masses as well as to the literary
class; hence some of the factors of
each idiom were used. St. Augustine
says: "I often employ words which
are not Latin, ami, I do so that you
may understand me. Better that I
should incur the blame of the gram
marians than not to be understood by
the people."—"Washington Star.
Effect of a Yawn
One day doctors will be able to tell
us why yawning is so infectious. The
other morning a woman sitting oppo
site me in the bus gave vent to a pro- i
digious yawn, writes a well-knAwn :
practitioner. Within a few seconds !
both her neighbors were yawning also,
and shortly afterwards I began to
yawn myself, although I felt quite
fresh and wideawake. I made a de
liberate attempt to check myself, but
could not succeed, and it was only
when my mind had been occupied by
some other matter that I forgot to
yawn. Probably by now you are yawn
ing yourself. The very word "yawn"
seems as infectious as the habit.—Ex
change. #
Every year China uses 4,000 tons
of lilies as food, the flowers being
made into a nourishing soup.
Favorite Recipes
of a Famous Chef
as Told to Anne Baker
By LOUIS D!AT, Chef,
f The Ritz Carlton, New York
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Sweet potatoes on the menu
often present a problem, as so
tew variations in their prepara
tion are offered in the recipes at
the command
or tne nouse
wife. Here are
two ways of
cooking tlieth
that Mr. Diat
is particularly
proud of.
Sweet Po
tatoes Louisi
ana or South
e r n Sty I e—4
portions—Boil
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Lou s Diat sized sweet po
tatoes until
tender in a generous quantity of
salted water. Cool, peel and cut
in round slices one-quarter inch
thick. Arrange them in a shallow
round earthenware or glass bak
ing dish, overlapping each other
in circles. Brush with butter and
pour over them one-half cupful of
hot maple syrup and brown for
fifteen minutes. Just before serv
ing, sprinkle with two tablespoons
of sugar. Glaze for one or, two
minutes under a hot broiler.
Sweet Potatoes and Ananas
Louisiana — Prepare sweet po
tatoes in the same manner as
Sweet Potatoes Louisiane. Ar
range them in the baking dish
with half slices of pineapple. Add
maple syrup, heat and glaze with
sugar as above.
! Favorite Recipes
of a Famous Chef
.as Told to Anne Baker
By LOUIS DIAT, Chef,
The Ritz Carlton, New York
Recipes for soups and salads
are always welcome in the
kitchen, where the problem of
avoiding an appetite-killing same
Louis Diat
UODD 1 XI I U C
menu often be
comes a com
plex one. Mr.
Diat offers the
following two
suggestions.
P o t a g o
Fermie re—
Chop together
until medium
fine four large
carrots, one
small turnip,
two leeks, two
onions and a
small quarter of a medium sized
cabbage. Brown all of these in
three tablespoons of butter. Add
three cups of white consomme.,
i.e., stock made from chicken or
veal, and three cups of water in
which white or lima bean's have
been cooked. Add pepper and
one or two teaspoons of salt.
Bring to a boil and cook slowly
for at least one hour. The pot
should be uncovered for at least
the first half of the cooking.
Just before serving add one
fourth cup of thin cream, one
level teaspoon of sugar, and one
half cup of cooked white lima
beans.
Marion Salad—For this select
a very firm, crisp, good-sized head
of lettuce. Level the stem so
that it will stand level on the
plate. Cut off a one-inch slice
from the top. With a pair of
kitchen shears cut out the }nner
leaves, leaving four or five layers.
Wash in cold water. Turn upside
down on a cloth to drain. Pre
pare small balls out of one-quarter
pound of cream cheese and place
in a mound in the lettuce shell.
Pour Bar-le-Duc jam around the
cheese balls. Sprinkle with from
one to two tablespoons of sugar.
Bathe some of the lettuce leaves
which have been cut out in
French dressing and pile lightly
around the filled shell. 1
HELPING YOUNG FOLK
TO BECOME BANKERS
Through the American Institute of
Banking, which is the American Bank
ers Association's educational section,
the banking profession is educating
35,000 bank men and women in the
technical and scientific departments
of their work. These students are en
abled by this institute, which is entire
ly non-commercial in its operations, to
obtain a grasp of the finer points of
banking without interrupting their
employment or interfering with their
earnings, in their bank .lobs.
The courses given, including bank
ing economics and law and bank ad
ministration in all the departments,
have been worked out under the di
rection of senior college educators
and the lectures are always given by
practical men, such as lawyers in ths
legal courses, experts in banking oper
ations and college professors in the
economics courses. There are chap
ters with meeting rooms in over 200
cities and also a number of smaller
study groups are fostered with cor
respondence aid.
It has been said that the A. I. B„ as
it is familiarly known throughout the
banking field, is- the greatest adult ed
ucational organization in the world
and is supplying the banking business
with the largest supply of trained |
workers each year that any compar
able fine of business is receiving, The
organization holds an annual conven
tion attended by hundreds of young
bank workers as well as senior hank
officers actively interested in further
ing the institute's educational work,
at which numerous technical subjects
of practical banking application- are
presented and discussed. This year's
convention will be held at. Der»ve.v, j
Jolorado, June 13 to 20. -> j
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English in Switzerland
A traveler recently returned from a
six months' holiday' in Switzerland
gave two quaint examples of English
as she is written in out-of-the-way
mountain chalets. One notice, taken
from a hotel frequented by rock
climbers, runis as follows: "It is de
fended to circulate in the corridors
in boots of ascension before seven
hours of the morning." The other is
a warning to travelers not to appear
at dinner in evening dress. It says:
"Strange gentlemen are requested not
to dress for dinner, as their costume
flatters the souls of the maid folk,
and no work is resulted." Which im
plies that Swiss girls are more sus
ceptible than is generally imagined.
It is remarkable that the Govern
ment can spend $200,000,000 a year
for new buildings and still retain the
same old inkwells in every post-of- j
ice.—San Diego Union. !
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Ask the majority of successful men how they
have attained success and their answer will be
"Through Saving," With the means open to
you, with the way made so easy, why not follow
this easy way to greater success?
THE BANK OF OLD FORT
OLD FORT, N. C.
J. S. BRADLEY, Pre*. F. M. BRADLEY, Cashier
P. H. MASHBURN, Vice-Pres.
"Eat Your Spinach, Dear"
<T(uAVEN'T you often said that to
Tmthe children, and applied the
C \ same remark to carrots, too?
For children are often reluctant to
eat these two vegetables so rich in
vitamins and so healthful because
the youngsters say that they haven't
"enough taste."
One way to solve this problem is
to add a dash of granulated sugar
to the water in which these vege
tables are cooked. It not only en-'
hances and develops the flavors of
these vegetables themselves, but it
also increases their food value.
Try These
Carrot'Boats with Spinach: Cook
even sized carrots until tender in
boiling, salted water with a dash of
granulated sugar. Drain. Cut in
halves lengthwise if very large.
Scoop out centers of the halves and
sprinkle the cavities with salt. Heat
a can of spinach, season well with
salt, pepper, butter, a little lenion
juice or vinegar, and also a dash
of granulated sugar. Then pile the
spinach in the carrot boats. Stick
a potato chip in one end to simulate
a sail, or garnish with a sprig of
parsley.
Spinach and Beet Mold: Cook a
can of spinach with a dash of sugar.
Drain, season well with butter, salt
and pepper and pack while hot into
a buttered ring mold. Keep hot
while preparing the beets. Heat
canned beets in their own , liquor
with a dash of sugar. Drain, chop
and season well with butter, salt and
pepper. Turn the spinach mold out
onto a hot, round platter and fill
the center with the beets. You may
sprinkle chopped, hard-cooked eggs
over the spinach ring.*
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"Three Lumps, Please"
Dr. Donald A. Laird, Colgate University psychologist, and
Fanchon, the movie's only woman producer, are separated by the
width of the continent. But their ideas run in the same channels.
Dr. Laird recently completed an investigation which revealed that
sugar, recognized as one of nature's greatest energy foods, wiil offset
physical fatigue. About the same time, Fanchon issued an edict that
her girls must eat enough energy building foods to maintain th.^ir pep
and vitality. That's v/hy the Hollywood studio girls shown above are
dropping an extra lump in their afternoon tea.
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