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PIGEON ROOST NEWS Selling Of Burley Tobacco Is Main Topic Of Talk In Hills HARVEY j. miller RT. I, RELIEF, N. C. 28769 i Selling of Burley Tobacco •HiMrs to be the most im portant conversation amorg the local people in this hilly country at this writing. There is so many different views involved in goiig to the tobacco market and mak ing the sale and to quote the words from the many formers that we have recently talk ed to would make to long of a story for my column at this time. But we are going to tell a few of the facts and figures on the tobacco sell ing business for the farmers but probably the best thiig that could be said about a tobacco crop I am about sure is how much money that it brought. At this time it seems that the majority of the folks mind is on tobacco and Christmas time. It seems these two events go hand in hand. For the to bacco grower and seller take some of their money derived from the sale of tobacco and buy their Christmas gifts to be presented to their folks and friends. For the first time in 10 years we helped to tend a to bacco crop and we sold it last Tuesday Dec, 5, and some of the things that we say from now on in this article is our own version at a tobacco ware house and of course seeing and hearing the tobacco auc tioneers selling tobacco. Our health has not been too good for several years and when our children got big enough to work we growed another good tobacco crop a gain. We sold our tobacco crop in Boone and the day that we was there we seen several other farmers at the tobacco warehouse from this immed iate section that we was ac quainted with who was there :on the same business as we -were to sell their tobacco crop and it was the first time that we ever took our tobacco to the market and sold it the same day. That was certainl* fine for our tobacco crop not h^ve to stay at the warehouse fQi- several days before the chant of the auctioneer" is' ' heard at the tobacco baskets.' jWe certainly liked the way MK Coleman and his co-work ers handled the transaction all the way in the selling of our tobacco crop and it was a speedy way in selling it and we didn’t have to remain there very long until we had sold our tobacco and was on our way back home with the money for it. We seen several baskets of tobacco that sold for 77 cents which was the higest that we had ever seen any tobacco sold for. It was also our first trip to Boone and found it to be a beautiful town. But we was told that it was a very old town and is a college town. We had been all around Boone but had not been directly in Boone before. We rode down King Street and had dinner at a resturant I believe on that same street. We made the trip without hav ing a pencil or pen with us and I didn’t even jot down any notes on our trip and we are writing this almostaweek later and our memory is not half as good as it use to be. I don’t remember the name of the resturant where we had our dinner but they certainly give good service. We met an old friend in the tobacco warehouse that we had not seen before within 10 years who was Joe Hill, Mr. Hill said he had been helping Mr. Garland at Beans Creek near here in his to bacco crop while he was at tending to business in Mitchell County. Mr. Garland sold his tobacco before we did. Mr. Hill said he had a good job in West Virginia working in the coal mines. I remember one time what he told me that ADEN INDEPENDENT Aden—Southern Arabia has become independent South Ye men Peoples Republic. This ends 128 years of British rule in Aden. The republic will be ruled by the National Liber ation front (NFL) headed by 47-year-old Qahtan A1 Shaabi. IKE DONATES HOME Washington—Former Presi dent Dwight Eisenhower and his wife have donated their Gettysburg, Pennsylvania home to the U. S. as a national his toric site. The Eisenhowers will continue to occupy the home dur ing the former President’s life time. he was a cook for a long time « a logging camp in Kentucky and that he could take as strong old homemade meat that could be found and soak it overnight in buttermilk and it would then be as good a r meat as right fresh meat. Mr. Hill is a real mountaineer and can certainly. tell a lot of mountain tales. We sure did like our trip and think the tobacco place does excellent service. We want to thank our many readers of this paper tor writ ing us the interesting letter’s throughout the year of 1967. As Christmas is approaching and another year will soon be here. K any of my columns during this year has proved interesting reading to you I will as usual tell in my column' how many Christmas Cards that I received. So I will say here that I want to wish the editor and all who work for the readers a very. Merry' Christinas and a Happy New Year. So let your Christmas cards and letters fly this way. I will try to answer as Many as I can. My correct address is at the top of this-column. Cranberries Are American Treat Cranberries are as tradition al as apple pie. Known to tKe Indians as I-bimi, or "bitter berry", cranberries were pounded ii)to a paste called pemmican, which was used as podltices on wounds. v Noting the berries to be the favorite food of cranes, the Pil grims called themcraneberries. - In true American tradition, this was eventually changed to cranberries. Cranes, of course, are un welcome hi cranberry bogs — | but other birds are encouraged. Bogs are often lined with bird houses — homes for swallows, , which eat destructive insects. ^ Along with the birds, the. bees play a welcome role fii cranberry production. 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