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PAGE TWO BAraSTSfirVETEN1 THOUSAND FILLED I JARS TO ORPHANS Wholesale Canning of Fruit and Veg- i etables for Mills Home Results j from Conference of .Mount Fleas- j ant Women. Gr cr Agreed to Furnish Cans and Original Xot a Drop in Bucket Interesting Story. The good Baptist folks of Watauga County arc finishing perhaps the most wholesome contribution of canned foods to their orphanage at Thomas- j ville ever known. The story of how a 1 few women in the western part ot j the county began talKing of Mills! Home and its .needs, and how their conversation resulted in more than ten thousand cans of fruits, etc. for the orphaned' children is a most interesting study, and is not without its pathos. The charitable impulses of Watauga people are brought out forcibly in the following story appearing in Charity and Children: Of course there is nothing new in putting all of the blame on the women. Mr. S. C. Eggers and Mr. Clyde R. Greene said that the women were to blame for starting the whole thing. According to Messrs. Eggers and Greeno It began last spring with Mrs. IT .tliA \ %.T? r~ iX'Jlc.n VI l?o dlt'lliu /vuajiu, .ui s. iiuia *? -IOUH, iu-u- . Asa Wilson, Mrs. N. T. Byers and j other women of Pleasant Grove! Church of the Three Forks Ajssocia- | tion. They were thinking about the . Orphanage ana what they could do j for the children. One of them sug- ; gested that they could do a lot of ! canning if they had glasn jars. They ! said that many of the women would | be glad to preserve fruits and vege- i tables if they only had jars. Some one ! suggested that they write to their j friend Ike Greer and ask him abcut j the jars. Mrs. Adams wrote and Mr. Greer went into a huddle with his j co-workers and found that there were i about one thousand seven hundred i and fifty empty glass jars on the j premised. He immediately wrote Mrs j Adam3 that the women could get all, of the jars that they could fill. Bin? asked him to come to fifth Sunday meeting and bring the girls' quartet with him. He went and told his home j folks about the orphanage. The girls ! sank thmes elves and the re3t of the nine hundred children into the hearts of the Three Forks people. Mr. Greer challenged the women to fill the ernp- , ty jars. The men of Three Forks were brought into the conference. Mr. B. C. Eggers, Sunday School represen- J tativo of the association, became en- ; thusiast.ic and said lie would go to every church in the association and tell the ladies that they would be furnished all of the one-haif-gallon | inrft th.il fhsv tvnnlrl fill fur t ho orphanage. Everywhere he went the ; ladies ordered jars and more jars. | Soon the 1,750 supply was exhausted, j had promised all the jars that the I ladies would fill and his supply was exhausted. It was necessary for v m to go into a huddle again and the o.e- ; cision of the conference was that he j would have to be as good as his word i especially since the one-half-gallon j jars cost less than eight cents apiece j and would be worth a lot more than j that when filled with the tasty fruits j i and vegetables of the mountains. j Arrangekiicula were mane with the Smithey store of Boone to furnish , jar's to the churches at wholesale j cost. Mr. Clyde R. Greene, the Milts ; Rome representative, had already be- i come greatly interested in the prop-' osition of canning for the orphanage, j He agreed to fill all orders sent in by Mr. Eggers and to send the li3t every week to the orphanage. The j women of the whole association Jbin- ; ed in Uie movement with wonderful enthusiasm. They were backed and i encouraged .by the pastors of the churches. Some of the pastors were! also pastors of churches h> the Sto- > ny Fork Association. They could not | help telling the women of their Sto- ! ny Fork churches what the women :y, of the Three Forks were doing. The j Stony Fork women could not see why. they should be left out of such a i practical undertaking They also sent | requests to Mr. Greene and received \ their jars. In every case the church was the | unit. Mr. Greene did not send jara | to individuals but to individual cbur-! chcs. Mr. Eggers would go to the1 church and get orders from individuals for jars and he would order in 1 hulk. The list of individuals would be left in tte neighborhood store where the members of that particular church did their trading and the I merchant would give out the jars. In many cases the rnrechants sent out the jars and when they were filled j he would send foi them so that the truck could be loaded from his store and sent to the orphanage. At this point volumes could be written about how the children went j out into the mountains and picked cherries, wild strawberries and how their hands were pierced with thoms of blackberry vines and how their clothing was torn. In many cases the clothing was none too much. Much could be told of the joy of women 4 who had never been able to contribute money but who gladly stood over hot 3toves until late into the night after a long day of toil. The women, children and preachers were not the only ones who had part in that labor of love. A truck driver told of being stopped by a man who hud pushed a wheelbarrow for a mile an J a half from his cottage to the highway with two dozen jars filled with berries that he had gathered and which his wife had canned. He gladly pushed that wheelbarrow over the mile and a half trail over which no wagon or automobile had ever been. Another story could be told of the frail little woman who heard of the work from her pastor who came to her in her nines?. She wanted some of the jars just as soon as she got well. She soon found that she was not to get well. Not to be outdone, her last request was that some jars that she had canned and had put up for winis t"r use before her illness be sent. News Items I And The Stc By M. K. DUNN At; AN (Special Writer for The Democrat) Raleigh.?Collection of 93 per cent of the crop production and livestock loans in North ami South Carolina is the record hung up by the Regional Agricultural Credit Corporation of Raleigh, and nearly one-fourth of the seven per cent, balance is not due until 1934, according to the report as of November 30, made by John P. Stedman, executive vice-president and manager. While Georgia and Florida are under direction of Mr. Stedman, the work is handled for those states by the Macon office. In North Carolina and South Carolina. Mr. Stedman*? report shows, there were 3,399 applications for loans and $3,903 loans were made, amounting in all to $2,838,134. of which $2,631,000 has been collected. The balance still outstanding is only $204,000, ot which $17,000 is not due until next year. Most of the latter items are cattle and dairy loans which run longer. The Regional Agricultural Credit Corporation is rapidly liquidating and IfFGXpCCi~- OlO*? : Oil* :w lUlSlIleSS here at an early date, although the plans have hot been announced. Mr. 8ted roan started the work from scratch, and built up an organization which at its peak employed 103 persons in the olfice and 02 in the field. The force has now been reduced to 33 in the office and 10 in the field. It is thought possible that the balance of the work will be consolidated with that of some other government activity a.1 oa early date. In North Carolina, the report shows that 2.790 loons were made, amounting to $1,815,041.S3, Of which only 397 are still outstanding, -amounting to ?143,784.53. Loans were made in S8 of the 100 counties and in 11 of these counties the loans have been repaid in full. Watauga County had no loans, the report shows. TAX COLLECTIONS GOOD Tax collections in North Carolina for the first five months of the fiscal year, to November 30, exceeded by more than S3.000,000 collections for the same period last year, $2,377,595 ui use increase Deing in general I una revenue and $691,332 in the highway fund revenue, the report of Commissioner of Revenue A. J. Maxwell shows. General fund collections for the five months were $8,796,628, as compared with $6,419,032 for the same period in 1932. November collections were 51,047,776, as compared with 5598,131 for November, 1932. The sales tax has brought in $1,925,560 in five months, on sales for four months, the November collections reaching $595,391, a healthy gain over October, in which the quarterly tax was collected. November returns were from 12.602 merchants, while October returns were from 17,720 merchants, the difference being in those paying quarterly. The beverage tax so far collected in five months is $164,310, the $23,468 collected in NoShe has gone to her resting place but the jars of fruit are in the Mills Home store house. But we have not space to go on and on with the stories that might be written We are not going to publish a list of the I names of those who had part in the ; undretaking. Every jar carries the ! name of the woman who canned it ! and you can see them stacked high j in the store room. Mr. Greer started into the store room recentlv and four boya asked him if they could go in with him. He consented and saw that they had pencil and paper and were writing down the names that were written on the jara. He asked them what they were doing and they said that they had a prayer circle and wanted to pray for the good women who were doing so much for them. We believe that God hears these orphan boys when they beg Him to bless the good women who are feeding them and the preachers and laymen who helped the women. Uf to the present 9.600 one-half-galloi: isrs have been placed in the storeroom and there will be at least 340C more. Twelve thousand and more jars of canned goods from one association resulted from that get-togethei of a few women and we maintain that that is something new undei the sun. WATAUGA DEMOCRAT- EVE* Above are the principal* iti the venr's most mystifying murder of Mrs. Rheta Gardner Wynekoop at I Chicago. Above,, left is Earl* Wvne/ koop, husband of Rheta, below, and son of Dr Alice Wyaekoro,' right. The partly clad body of the wife was found with a bullet in the back on the operating table in Dr Alice Wynekoop's basement ofiice at Chicago. Grilling of Dr. Alice and son E&rle finally brought forth con tvaaiuus, irom oorn, each absolving the other rom Raleigh site At Large j vember indicating another drop ir , consumption, probably seasonal. The automobile taxes reached $8,I 212.232 in five, months, an increase i of $091,332 over the $6,520.90 collect , cii in the same period last year. No 1 vember collections reached 53,458, j 343. an increase of $205,772 over Noj vember. 1932, collections of $1,252, 504. License plate collections for tti< 1 calendar year to November 30 amounted to $5,297,511, or $87,241 less thai the $5,384,752 in the same period ir 1932. WORK PROJECTS APPROVED Work programs that will employ 43,413 men and will pay them $4, i 519,661 60 in wages, in addition to tin j additional work that will be provide< | for supplies and materials, had beer i approved by Mrs. Thomas O'Berry ! Civil Works Administrator, up U | Friday night. j Wake leads with $283,000 in pay ' rolls for the work approved. Meek ] lenburg is second with $253,000 an< j Forsyth third with $215,000. Guilfon : has $207,000, New Hanover 172,000 j Wilson $121,000 and Wayne $100,000 i Watauga. County^ has work pro | grams approved which will employ 1399 men, paying them direct $25, 1938.50, the report snows. Every on* j of the 100 counties has several proj j ects under way under the programTAX RATINGS KXPI.A1XKD j Because of confusion that has ar Isen out of application of the gener | al three per cent, sales tax, especial I iy on the divisions above purchaser j of 51.00. Hairy iucMuiian, ulreclo I of the division, has worked out a nev . schedule of taxes to be charged. ! The application of the tax, h< . states, "provides that on items sok (above $1.05, a merchant should col ! lect straight three per cent., frac ; tions governed by major fractions This means that an article sells, bj way of illustration, for $1.10, the ; per cent, would amount to .033. Ir ! tins case there would be a minoi (fraction and the merchant should col lect on such a sale three cents. He gives the. following table o; ' collections, there being no tax ox | items costing less than 10 cents, or , the combined sales at one trading pe j riod, both figures inclusive: ! 10c to 35c, tax lc 36c to 70c, tax....- 2c J Jlc to $1.16,^ tax 3c I 51.n to $i.4?, tax.... ,4c I $1.50 to $1.83, tax 5c $1.84 to $2.18, tax 6c $2.17 to $2.49, tax ... 7c $2.50 to $2.83, tax 8c $2.84 to $3.16, tax 9c $3.17 to $3.49, tax. 10c $3.50 to $3.83. tax. 11c $3.84 to $4.16, tax 12c $4.17 to $4.49, tax 13c $4.50 to $4.83, tax 14c $4.84 to $5.16, tax 15c Purchases amounting to more thaj $5.16 'should be calculated the sam way, Mr. McMullen points out. stat ing that this is not any change what ever in the uniform sales tax 3chcl ule, but merely an explanation of it i application. He suggests that this ta ble be clipped for convenient refer ence. "We again state that under th ' Sales Tax Schedule a merchant hav ing several departments and differ ent counters is expected to make aj . arrangement whereby the customer in the store can combine their pur chases made in one or more depart merits or at one or more counters ? that the total purchase made at on trading period will determine the pur II chasers' liability for the tax and no ; the single purchase made at differ i eni counters ana in different depart ments. The method of handling thi is left to the merchant who is ex pected to formulate and put into ef fecrt reasonable regulation for dealiiij i with it and advise customers in thei : stores about it," Mr. McMuilen says 1 IJCENSE TAGS ON SALE > Motor vehicle license plates wer i placed on sale Friday morning by th State Department of Revenue at it > home office here and. at 43 brahc i offices in the State and these plate will be usable from the date of sale Commissioner of Revenue A. J. Max i well announces. The selling time has been advance from December 15th to December Is LY THURSDAY?BOONE. N. C. PEOPLE WITH JOBS I WARNED NOT TO I BOTHER WITH CWA i' Those Who Have Had Empioymcat and Quit Work to Seek Belief Employment to Be Eliminated. Em! ployees Expected to Work Hard. Officer in the 100 Counties Are'. ! No.. Functioning". By M. H DUNNAGAN Raleigh.?People who have jobs are warned not to give them up in the hope of getting jobs paying more money under the Civil Works Admin-1 i3tmtion. Public Works Adroinistra- ; tor or other relief agencies. Mr??. Thomas O*Berry. Civil Works j Administrator, and Capus M. Wayn- ; iek. director of re-employment, fori the State, h ve both issued warnings i thai the jobs are for tlic unemployed j and not for those who have jobs and who may seek to get more money or j shorter hours under one of the relief j h\ fact, both officials say they will use every effort to eliminate any who might have had jobs and quit them in the hope of getting CWA or PVVA jobs. The jobs, they point out, are for the unemployed and not for those who have or have recently had jobs they quit just to try to get more pay or better working hours. They realize that on occasions such ' , people may slip through, but they i are bending their efforts to prevent < them from securing such work. i Moreover, they issue fair warning that, those who get jobs under either of the programs are expected to work j actually work, and warn that those j i who are fired because they will not ! work, will not only be ineligible for ; other jobs under the program, but! they will be prosecuted for non-sup-' 1 port of their families, if evidence is available that by being fired for not! ' working, they are not providing suf5 ficiently for their families. Workers under the CWA programs: * have been recruited as far as possi- ! " bio from the relief rolls of the: vari- j " ous counties, taking those workers! whose families have been supported * entirely or in part by funds distrib* uted. After they are employed, the 1 Workers will be employed from those 1 who have registered as unemployed with the local re-employment offices. Director Way nick reports that 1.323 were placed during the week end- i ing November 25, with reports from j - 74 counties. These were placed en- j 3 lirely in private employment, or in * public works employment, as the t CWA projects had not been started . at that time. At that date 74,094 had > been registered in the 74 offices as unemployed, the figures showing an j - increase. Offices in the 100 counties! - rtrcrn...^.v^ .....1 - -* 1 ?.?v- wv?,? v/i oHiiu^v ouu ivauy it? iuiic1 tion, he .said. 1 . as part of a positive plan to make ' January 1st the deadline lor idle use - of old plates. Mr. Max**el! states. * saying that it gives every motorist j - 30 days in which to comply with the positive provisions of the law. "Consistent policy, the avoids discrimination and treats every motorist alike, requires a fixed time beyond which the use of old license . plates on tiie highway will not be - permitted. The law fixes this time - as the first day of January. It has 3 been agreed by al! administrative ri agencies, therefore, that this pror vision of the law will 1>" strictly enforced after sunrise on January 1st. ? AU ]xjAce officers of counties and t cities will be requested to join the -1 enforcement officers of the State to j - i see that this provision is strictly en- : forced on and after that date with no j f favor itism to anyone," Mr. Maxwell j i states. ' j| When You Want a l \ Beautiful Design of FLOWERS (Any Kind) for a funeral, or flowers to o^jiu a otvn i: icau ur iur tl j party, call on Miller's Floral Shoppe BOONE, N. C. Phone 20 48 E. Main St. For Fastest I Relief Demand and Get ; : GENUINE BAYER I ASPIRIN DECAUSE of a unique process t| ** in manufacture. Genuine Bayer -! Aspirin Tablets are made tn integrate?-or dissolve?INSTANTa LY you take them. Thus they start to work instantly. Start "taking hold" of even a severe headache, neuralgia, neuritis or rheumatic pain f. a few minutes after taking. And they provide SAFE relief? ' for Genuine BAYER ASPIRIN does not harm the heart. So if you want QUICK and SAFE relief see that e | you get the real Bayer article. Look e ] for the Bayer cross on every tablet s a3 shown above and for the words h GENUINE BAYER ASPIRIN on a every bottle or package you buy. Member N. R. A. . GENUINE BAYER ASPIRIN d DOES NOT HARM THE HEART it DECEMBER 7, 1933 NO OVERTIME ON SMOKlNG CAMEL'S COSTLIER TOBACCOS never <jetVn yvitr'ltzrvei...<1iicv&r~tire ijowToste RErOFT OF THE CX)M)ITIOX hp THE PEOPLES INDUSTRIAL RANK At Boone, North Carolina, to the Commissioner of Banks at the Close of Business oil the 25th Day of October, 1933: RESOURCES AMOUNT" Cash, Checks for Clearing: and Transit Items S 507.82 Due from Approved Depository Banks 264 21 Cash Items( Held Over 24 Hours). 594.45 Other Stocks and Bonds - 268.00 Loans and Discounts?Other 119,037.56 Furniture, Fixtures and Equipment 3,579.00 Other Real Estate 19.820.3i Accounts and Notes Receivable of Insurance, Reai Estate and Other Departments 525.CM TOTAL# RESOURCES $145,156-3" LIABILITIES AND CAPITAL# Cashier's Checks, Certified Checks and Dividend Checks $ 1,953.94 Time Certificates of Deposit?Due Public Officials 8,436.46 Time Certificates of Deposit?Due Others 54,842.21 Savings Deposits?Due Others 12,259.29 Bills Payable. 37.339.85 Due Watauga Building and I^oan Association . 4,562.16 Capital Slock?Common 25,000.09 Undivided Profits - 762.38 TOTAL LIABILITIES AND CAPITAL. $145,156.39 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, County of Watauga, ss. G. D. Brinkloy, Assistant Cannier, W. H. Gragg, Director, and I. C. Crit elier. Director of the Peoples Industrial Bank, each personally appeared before me this day, and, being duly sworn, each for himself, says the foregoing report is true tc the best of his knowledge and belief. G. D. BRINK LEY, Assistant Cashier W. H. GRAGG. Director I. C. CRITCHER, Director. Sworn to and subscribed before ine this the 27th day of November, 1933. (SEAL1 A. E. SOUTH, Clerk Superior Court. Get Ready j -?-??- for the I Big Push! I During: the next three weeks we will- offer you the highest qual- B ity merchandise at prices that speak for themselves. Remember 9 that the FIVE TO FIVE STORE for the last three years here in your town, has always sold quality merchandise at prices you can K afford to pay. Our buying connection enables us to do this. listed ' I below are some special prices, so take advantage of them while S they last: Men's Heavy Underwear flQl? 1 Winter weight, per suit only Ladies' Pure Thread Silk Hose I Full-fashioned in all colors, per pair.. W** Men's Big Jack Overalls ^ ift* 8 None better, a real value at only _ _ " B 136-inch Outing (Good Quality) t I Special per yard only . B 0 Wolverine Work Shoes "1 Qfi 8 A high quality nhoe, per pair.? M.%V v ? All Wool Sweaters "8 ffrt in 9 A big assortment priced only 'U Men's Dress Oxfords "i QQ in C Art A good assortment of styles and sizes ' ''O 1U v?Vv New Styles in Silk Dresses 9 AflJ in Q C New Shipment, each only W 1U A V See them and appreciate the values we offer. John B. Stetson Hats and Freeman Shoes for the Best Dressed Man! Gea the Five to Five Habit and Save the Difference! THE FIVE-TO-FIVE STORE "UNDERPRICED MERCHANDISE" ' aft mm i m m.
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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