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Parents Praise Girl For $10,000 Marriage Offer New Lexington, O.,—Mary Clowes, who offered to marry the first man who would give her parents $10,000, has received the blessing and praise of her aged father and mother. She made the offer in New Eagle, Pa. Her parents live in a drab, frame house at Misco, one of the few remain ing structures of a once prosperous mining village. Mrs. Clowes is 60 a crippled wo man who held crutches by her side as she sat before a coal stove and dis cussed "Mary’ strange idea.” Her story was that of adversity. "At first we didn’t like it,” she said, "but my husband said she was doing more than most girls would. Mary’s a good girl.” Mrs. Clowes had 10 children. The family prospered when mining was good. They ran a small store. Then, in 1925, Walter Clowes was killed in the mines. Carl was killed two years later by a chimney. A mine strike was called. The Clowes’ store failed. The miners mov ed away. Wiliam Clowes, the father, leased a mine. The mine was closed. Mary was forced to leave school. She went to Pennsylvania to work. She lost two jobs. Then came her offer of marriage for $10,000, the money to go to her family. JOBLESS PAID FOR WOOD YARD WORK BY HOUR Washington — Twenty-five cents an hour for sawing wood will be paid the intinerant unemployed in Washing ton by the District of Columbia Com mittee on Unemployment. Although the committee is a municioal govern ment institution, its funds come from benefit shows and other forms of charity. The municipal woodyard was set up under the direction of the Com missioners of the District of Columbia as a sort of penal servitude establish ment to drive itinerant jobless out of the city. The definition of "itinerant” is held to include all jobless who have lived in Washington less than one year Sawing wood is regarded by the au thorities as being the hardest kind of work, and they figure that three or four hours of it at 25 cents an hour will drive the wood cutters to some other more, or less hospitable commun ity. For jobless workers not classified as itinerant, the committee undertakes to provide a certain amount of work at 45 cents an hour in parks and playgrounds provided the jobless bring letters from two responsible citi zens stating that they have lived in the District for more than one year and that they are in need of work. The work is performed under the direction of the Federal Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks, which is under the control of Con gress. It is said that the penny-pinch ers in the Federal Government look with favor on the scheme as it will de crease the amount of necessary appro priation for the upkeep of the parks and playgrounds and thus assist the administration in balancing its budget. 100 Million Years Old, Calculated That is the calculated age of the sea, scientists say. Father neptune is at least 100, 000,000 years old. This minimum estimate of old ocean’s birthday is reached by Prof. Adolph Knopf, chairman of the Na tional Research Council committee oi the age of the earth, from calcula tions of the amount of salt in the seas and the annual increase by drain age from continents. The total salt content is approxi mately 160,000,000,000,000,000 tons. The seas are growing saltier at the rate of about 2,73 5,000,000 tons a year. In the beginning, it is assum ed, ocean water was very nearly salt less. It has all come from land ero sion. But, Prof. Knopf finds the present rate of deposition of salt in the world’s oceans may be from fifteen to twenty times greater than the aver age for all history. In any event the seas are growing saltier much fas ter than they have for extended pe riods in the past. This makes the computation very complicated. Another complication arises from the fact that a small amount of salt, in comparison with the total is being pressed back and forth between land and ocean in a continuous cyle. This is known as "cylic sodium,” which es capes from ocean in spray, is blown far inland, and then returned with drainage. The present amount of salt in the ocean, it is calculated, calls for the decomposition of 84,300,000 cubic miles of igneous rocks. ESTATE LEFT TO WIDOW Cooleemee — "Boxwood Lodge,* $100,000 estate of the late William Rabb Craig, New York, multi-mil lionaire, has been left to the widow, iccording to information received here recently. Boxwood is situhted two miles southeast of here' on high way No. 80 and contains 1,225 acres. A Merry Christmas to You! VETS GET CASH Raleigh—The state department of labor secured $22,196.78 in back com pensation and $1,205.30 in monthly income for veterans of this state last year. 4,201 ON HIGHWAYS Raleigh—There are 4,201 prisoners working on the highways of the state. WINE BRICK SALES HELD ILLEGAL IN NORTH CAROLINA Terming the North Carolina prohi bition laws more comprehensive in their application than the Federal prohibition laws, the State Attorney General’s department decently held the sale and possession of "wine bricks” unlawful in this state. The opinion, written by A. A. F. Seawell, assistant attorney general, was addressed to Phin Horton, Jr., Wins ton-Salem attorney, but it was stated at the department that Mr. Horton was only one of upwards of 50 per sons who had requested a ruling on the subject. Although the "bricks” have been on sale throughout the state for months, displayed openly at many soda fountains and drug stores, and were peddled by agents for months before being placed on sale recently, the Seawell opinion represents the tirst word in the matter trom the State’slegal authorties. It would hardly be safe to say that it will be the last, however, as the processes for bringing a test case to the Supreme court are simple. In other states the "wine brick” question has been more in the limelight than here, and in some of them they have been held within the law. The Federal Farm Board has been liberal in its advances to California grape grow ers’ association producing the raw pro duct. The opinion does not go into the legality of canned malt extract, which enjoys a wide sale in this state for what purpose there is little doubt. Nor would the Attorney General dis cuss that product, but it was observed that whereas the "wine bricks’^ carry directions for the making of a fer mented beverage—or rather directions how not to make one the malt packages carry only recipes for making such eminently respectable home products as muffins and cakes and the like. There is not the slightest indication that the malt concentrate, by the addition of certain ingredients obtainable at any grocery, and the exercise af a little p’atience may be converted into a beverage carrying a "kick more power ful than any of the commercial pre prohibition ales. ■■■■■■■■■HI APPALACHIAN WINS The Appalachian football team de feated the^Catawba outfit last Satur day in Charlotte in the charity tilt 13 to 6. This concluded the 1931 grid season for the Indians. TOMBSTONE KILLS MAN Beaufort—Theodore E. Adair, 76, was killed when a 3,000-pound tomb stone fell from its base and struck him. The deceased was the father of a local undertaker. SCOLARSHIP AVAILABLE Chapel Hill—A full scholarship, in the culver Military Academy, valued at $6,000, is now open to a North Carolina boy, it has been announced by Dr. Edgar W. Knight, chairman ol the Culver Military academy scolar ship committee in this state. Hope For Snow Blasted By Blooming Dandelions I — ___ The therometer, the barometer and the anemometer will have to work harder than they have lately if Santa Clause is to come a-sleigh-riding into Salisbury Thursday night. For out in the fields, the dandelions are blooming—s’a fact! There is a probability of rain on Christmas Eve; the Weather Man says it will turn colder—but snow: no such predictions. The thermometer indicated its con temp for conventional Christmas weather by opening the week with springlike temperature. Slightly war mer weather is predicted for a day 01 so, and then cooler weather. And even if the temperature does fall between now and Christmas, the odds are heavily against any snow for Santa Clause. In the past forty years only six or seven respectable snows have fallen on the day before Christmas, and only three have occurred on Christmas day. RAPID STUFF Bald Student You say you can recommend this hair restorer? Barber Yes, sir. I know a man who removed the cork from the bottle with his teeth and within 24 hours he had a mustache. BOaKS ( I Good books give lasting joy. And books are among the least expensive of the worth-while gifts. Choose wisely— please your friends by the compliment to taste that your choice indicates. CLASSICS w\ ** Tale of Two Cities, d*0 Charles Dickens -fJ/O Vanity Fair, d* O William Thackeray _V ^ Red Lily, d* Q Anatole France - Saint Joan, d* O l G. B. Shaw _Vfc* Youth, d*0 s Joseph Conrad -Vv ; | Travels with a Donkey, d* O Stevenson -V “ FICTION American Beauty, ^ O Edna Eerber_V" Judith Paris, Q Hugh Walpole _ Red Headed Women ^ Q Katherine Brush_ V Two People, ^ O A. A. Milne_vO First Person Singular, ^ O | W. S. Maugham_V ™ Ten Commandments, d* O Warwick Deeping _Vv Also, Visit Our Children’s Book Department BUERBAUM’S BOOK STORE II 1 | When YOU Want RESULTS .... Advertise In THE WATCHMAN! Show It 1' . 1 Describe It Price It! A customer wishes to see what you have to sell. Then she^ \ wants to know the uses and advantages. Finally, she must \ * I learn the cost. All personal selling is based on these three essentials. So, too, is effective advertising. Here, in these columns, with drawing or photograph you can illustrate attractive ly what you have to sell; with copy that truthfully pre sents the merits of your product you can answer the cus tomer’s question, "What does it mean to me?” and with frankly stated prices you can reply to the query, "What \ I can 1 save?” The most successful merchants long ago began basing 111 their advertising on these three essentials the thriftiest buy- 111 ers want to know, and they continue to do so today. Are ||| you passing up the opportunity to tell your selling story— ||| ALL of it? HI Your ad in the pages of THE CAROLINA WATCH- ||| MAN reaches more than 3,000 families in this county. In 111 addition it goes into many other homes in this trading ter- 811 ritory. These CAROLINA WATCHMAN reading eyes ||| 1 want to be served with the facts about YOUR merchandise. 111 A call to 5 3 2 will bring you a man who will intelligently J11 discuss with you your advertising problem. HI The Carolina I Watchman 1 LThe Oldest Newspaper Published In North Carolina
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