Spurns Offer
Of $100 For $1
- Fredericksburg, Va.,—Peter Yon,
the stonemason who retrieved the
silver dollar Walter Johnson pitched
changed his mind about selling it.
"I need the money,” he said.
"But some of my friends tell me
this dollar is going to be worth
a whole lot more than the $100 I
am offered. I think I’ll keep it for
a while.”
Yon came to the United States
eight years ago from Italy. He
said he had heard of George Wash
ington as a boy, but never imag
ined he would be involved in a
sequel to one of the legends about
the. father of his adopted country.
Aaron Goldsmith, local mer
chant, had offered $100 for the
coin baseball’s "big train pitched
acrofi the river to duplicate a feat
attributed by legend to Washing
ton.
Elated over public interest in the
dollar throwing, officers of the
George Washington foundation,
which was organized ten years ago
to buy Ferry farm, boyhood home
of George Washington, were re
ported planning a new effort to
raise funds to complete the pur
chase.
Walter Does It!
Fredericksburg, Va.—The mighty
Walter Johnson defeated the Rap
pahanock river two to one proving
for all time that George Washing
ton could have thrown a dollar
across it, if he’d had one.
With 5,000 throats to cheer and
10,000 eyes to watch his every
move, the mighty Johnson almost
struck out. That was because his
foot slipped.
Then, regaining his footing on
the bank of the river at the old
farm of the first president, the
baseball immortal spun three siver
cartwheels across the 272-foot
span of water and ice. Two land
ed on the opposite short, causing
mud splashing riot among the spec
tators, while the third bounced
against a pier and plunked into the
water.
TO HEAR DISTILLER’S PLEA
Washington—The Federal Alco
hoi administration Saturday wil
hear the application of Brown
Owen, Inc., St. Louis firm, for j
wholesale liquor license to replace
one revoked when it pleaded guilty
several months ago to shipping li
quor into the then dry State of
Arkansas.
NEW DETECTIVE SERIES
• Another series of articles which
reveal secrets of the Surete, French
detective police, will appear in th«
American Weekly, beginning Mar
1. The American Weekly come:
every Sunday with the BALTI
MORE AMERICAN, the South’;
favorite newspaper. Your news
dealer has your copy.
The American humorist who ha
attained the greatest internationa
fame is Mark Twain.
;
j Bruno Richard Hauptmann
TRENTON, N. Jt.. . Herewith is presented carefully selected pictures,
from tha hundreds sad hundreds taken •( Bruno Hauptmann during his
trial and which accurately portray the character of the man convicted
•f qmrdering the Lindbergh baby .. . and now re-senteneed for execution,
following a 30 day reprieve. He was to bars been electrocuted January 17.
Crossnore Kiddies
Last year, when the Day School
closed, and our vaction began, a
wonderful experience came into the
lives of our Crossnore Kiddies.
Time after time, we received let
ters saying, "Send us one of your
little boys or girls ( and sometimes
they said two.) "We will love them
and take care of them and send
them back to you in time for
school." The writers of these let
ters were offering to dormitory
children the great experience of be
ing loved, of being in a home,
"sorter” like they belonged there.
Isn’t that the birth-right of every
American child? and yet so many
of our children must miss it, unless
you give it to them. Don’t you
want to try it for one vacation?
Those who did wrote us that they
enjoyed it as much as the children
did. A letter just received from a
big hearted farmer says, "Tell
Lefty I want him to stay with me
next vtcation.” Lefty went for
just a little while last summer, and
. he will never forget the jojy of it.
[ Just think how his heart will jump
when I tell him he is wanted for
the whole vacation!
And some folks said, "I need
somebody that can help me with
little things. A middle size girl who
would mind the baby, or play with
my little folks while I am at work,
or help wash dishes and tidy up the
home.” Or, "I need a likely boy
who can bring in stove wood or
feed the chickens, and bring in
eggs, or go on errands, and pull
weeds.” "I’ll help with the clothes,
if I can get such a one.”
i i a 1
/Ana men, same outers wiuic anu
said, "I need some real help in the
home, or on the farm. Have you a
big boy or girl who would like such
a job and is capable of doing it:
i And how much would we have tc
l pay in wages?” And we were sc
glad, for our big boys and girl:
have such a hard time getting
money for incidentals. The thing:
that happen during the High Schoo
1 years, and cost ever so little arc
very important in their young
lives. And how many of our chil
dren just have to be left out! W<
have letters telling us what splendic
help our big boy or girl has been
Some are going back to the sami
places this year, and some have pro
mised that when they graduate the]
will go and stay.
This year our school close:
March 24th. Just at the time whet
lots of folks need to be starting thi
garden, working with the flowers
DON’T YOU WANT SOME
BODY TO HELP? And as you sov
seed in your ground, you will alsc
be sowing seeds in young lives, thai
will be perennials.
TADE’S CASE HOPELESS
New York—His case said by i
group of brain specialists to be be
r yond the reach of medical scienci
Herbie Tade, University of Ten
l nessee football center who suffere<
r a severe skull fracture in a garni
- against Kentucky last Thanksgivinj
left for Knoxville. #
U. S. FILES EXCEPTIONS
9 Philadelphia—United States at
3 torneys filed 136 exceptions to i
3 court-apppointed master’s conclus
ion that the government owes th
Bethlehem Steel corporation an<
subsidiaries a war debt of $5,661,
154 for building troop transport
and tankers.
The population of Japan has in
creased 4,801,260 since 1930.
Harry Gwin Is
Named Commissioner
Of Softball Asso.
(Special to The Watchman)
Charlotte, Feb. 27—Appoint
ment of Harry Gwin, who is 1
sports editor of the Salisbury Post, '
as the Amateur Softball Association '
of America’s Salisbury commissioner
was announced today by the Caro- 1
linas association officials.
Mr. Gwin will have complete
charge of A. S. A. softball activi- 1
ties in his city. Both league com
petition and a city-wide elimina
tion tournament will be promoted
by him.
The A. S. A. recognizes compe
tition in women’s and men’s classes
for elimination play and recom
mends three special classifications 1
for league play—independent, com
mericial and church. Elimina
tion winners in each city will com
pete for district titles; district
winners for Carolinas titles.
The A. S. A. will present gold
medals to the Carolinas champions,
who will represent the Carolinas
association in the world’s amateur
softball championships in Chicago
the first week in September.
The Carolinas association, with
headquarters here, announced that
Mr. Gwin is ready and willing to
assist all teams and players to be
come affiliated with this nation
wide movement.
Cleveland Route 2
Cleveland-Scotch Irish Grange
held its regular meeting Tuesday
night with all of its members pres
ent except seven. We are doing
excellent work now and are mak
ing a membership drive for more
members.
Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Guffy spent
the week-end with Mrs. Guffy’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Johns
ton.
Mr. and Mrs. Horace Fraley and
children visited Mr. and Mrs. G. C.
Steele near Woodleaf Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Flowe McDaniel
and small son have moved to
Needmore, N. C.
Mr, W. A. (Uncle Billy) as he is
known to many Steele, is seriously
ill, his many friends will be sorry
to learn.
Mrs. Ralph Page, little Janie
Moore, Miss Nettie Swisher and
Mesdames Will Harper and Robert
Walker spent last Thursday at the
home of Mr. J. R. Guffey.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Campbell and
children visited Mr. and Mrs. N. S.
Steele and Mr. and Mrs. P. A.
Johnston Sunday. Mr. and Mrs.
Rex Fraley and Mary Catherine
also visited at P. A. Johnston’s
1 Sunday.
Miss Pearl Thompson visited Mr.
: and Mrs. J. T. Graham recently.
Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Steele spent
I the week-end with Mrs. Steele’s
! parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Stele.
ENJOINS K. OF C. EMBLEM
New York—Federal Judge Rob
ert P. Patterson signed an injunc
■ tion 'restraining the American
1 Contest corporation from using the
■ name or emblem of the Knights of
: Columbus in connection with any
l of its enterprises except the title
• sweepstakes contest it is conduct
* ing in New York State.
The Parsi people of India pick
the bodies of their dead and Bury
only the skeleton.
B .Bfilnquuq _
■HOMf^fACTS
-- BAnRAHA PALY ==^
Meet the Brush Family . . .
Toothbrush, Hairbrush, Clothes
brush and scrub brush. Time was
when those four were the sole
members of a very noble family.
But now what have you? Well, you
may not have all of these but
here’s a list of what the well
equipped household carries in the
brush line. Besides the aforemen
tioned, there’s a brush for nails,
for complexion, and for all-round
bath use—long handles, short han
dles, with stiff or soft as down
bristles, depending upon the use.
There’s a powder brush for milady
and a firm little complexion brush
with rounded bristles that fits into
the palm of her hand and coaxes
out a day’s grime like nobody’s bus
iness. And there’s a he-man com
plexion brush for the gentleman of
the house, to discourage poaching.
Clothes can be valeted beyond
description with a curved brush
whose firm bristles seek out way
ward hairs behind shoulders, and
a soft bristled brush that picks up
the nap on dusty felt hats. The
old scrub brush worked hard for
its living keeping the house in
order. Now it is joined by numer
ous long-haired floor-brushes, wall
radiator and three-sectioned Vene
dan blind brushes. Upholstery is
tept well-groomed with a specially
instructed brush whose bristles
:nd in a point for working into
:revices. And there’s a whole clan
>f cleaning brushes, many of stiff
fibre bristles whose sole purpose
s to spruce up bathroom and
citchen hardware.
The best hair brushes are made
of boar’s bristles. Need I stress
low important it is to buy only
:he best if you expect long and
aseful service. For some reason
or other the Siberian boar has the
-eputation for producing the fin
:st bristles. Untouched by com
nunal influence, he has spent years
:hasing over the Siberian steppes de
veloping an independent bristle as
veil as an independent mind. Try
pinching a genuine boar’s bristle
md you find it won’t snap off or
lose its resiliency like the bristle
of an inferior„brush. Bleached, or
- ■, jjt-- --— —
au naturel, the real boar’s bristle
has years of life in it.
Do you brush your hair one hun
dred strokes a day? No, I thought
not. You can’t get beyond fifty
two? That’s a good average. But
you’ll find the operation much more
enjoyable with no fear of discour
againg a beautiful wave if you use
one of the new brushes designed
for curly heads. It has deep, pen
etrating bristles, cerrated on top
to fit into the lines of your wave.
It lifts rather than flattens the
wave, and aereates as it lifts. Bend
forward from the waist, please, as
you brush, to encourage circulation
to the roots of your hair.
Go into the canning factories if
you would discover1 economy in
food preparation carried to the last
degree of perfection. Take the
case of pine-apple. Those thick
slices constitute only one portion
of the pineapple’s assets. The brok
en slices at either end are diced
and canned. Tid-bits come from
the inner shell lining. Then juice
is extracted from the shell, ends
and core are boiled down for syrup.
The residue is converted into a
fine bran mash for stock feeding.
A woman with five growing
daughters told me how she solved
the manicure problem. Each daugh
ter demands her own set of lotions
for nail softening and cuticle re
moval. That runs into money
when multiplied by five. So each
week a bottle of nail softner is pre
pared and placed in a stoppered
bottle for general use. Here’s the
recipe: four tablespoons of pure
soap flakes dissolved in one and
one-half cups of hot water, a
fourth cupful of salad oil added,
shake well and use the emulsion as
needed.
Have you wondered how crisp,
crunchy corn bread sticks are
made? This recipe comes from a
restaurant famous for its corn
sticks. Sift together one and one
fourth cups of flour, three tea
spoons of baking powder, one tea
spaon of salt. Stir in one cup
of yellow cornmeal and one table
spoon of sugar. Add one egg beat
en with three-fourths cupful of
milk and stir in one-fourth cup of
melted shortening. Pour into
oiled bread-stick pans and bake in
a moderate oven at 375 degrees F.,
about 25 minutes.
* * *
A Dowager was heard to re
mark to a pretty young Matron,
"After all, looks aren’t everything.”
'No,” said the other, "but they
give you a good half hour’s start.”
Route One Items
G. R. Fink spent Wednesday
with O. T. Nesbit of Woodleaf.
Unity church has been wired
preparatory to installing electric
lights in the near future.
John Davis spent Friday night
with H. M. Shaver.
Mr. and Mrs. (Harry Lowder spent
i Friday with Miss Daisy Briggs of
Salem vicinity.
John Barger and Ford Lyerly vis
ited J. G. Lyerly and Geo. F. Pow
las last Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Fink and
children spent the week-end in
Concord with Mr. and Mrs. Wein
sil.
Mr. and Mrs. Hilary Hutchins
of Spencer spent Friday and Satur
day with Mr. and Mrs. G. R.
Fink.
C. H. Weiser and Sidney Hutch
ins motored to Charlotte on Friday.
Mr. Hutchins hopes to enter the
Sanitorium at that place for treat
ment in the near future, he being a
World war veteran and having been
injured on a railroad train at Starr,
N. C.
Miners of Scotland are going to
Southern Rhodesia to work in
copper mines at salaries of $2,COO
a year.
BETTER
• -
USED CARS
AT THE DODGE AND
PLYMOUTH PLACE
LOWEST PRICES in SALISBURY
Shoppers tell us that our use
cars are $25.00 to $50.00 cheap*
than used cars at other garages
One look will convince you..
’34 Ford Coupe, 13,000
miles_$395.0
’34 Plymouth Sedan, clean 445.0
’31 Chevrolet Coach, clean 225.0
McCANLESS MOTOR CO.
122 E. COUNCIL ST.
SALISBURY, N. C.
MARCH IS THE MONTH TO
TOP DRESS YOUR GRAIN!
Many grain growers in this territory earned as much as
500% on their investment last Spring by topdressing their
wheat with extra Nitrogen.
WE CARRY A FULL STOCK OF
Chilean Nitrate of Soda
“Aero” Cyanamid
Zenith 10-0-15
Our new plant, at the same location, is completed. ZENITH
FERTILIZERS containing Lime and Ground Tobacco
j Stems for filler, are manufactured in Salisbury to suit
Rowan County soil. *
ZENITH CHEMICAL CO.
SALISBURY, N. C.
i:
Announcing the Re-Opening of the
New EFIRD’S
SALISBURY, N. C
With Many Outstanding Improvements in
All Departments!
s-1-\
Souvenirs
| for men and women.
Get them in
• Men’s Dept
• Hosiery Dept.
• Shoe Dept.
• Ready-to-wear Dept.
Attendance
Prizes
will be given to some of our
guests. Be sure to register
when you enter.
• 35-Pc. Dinner Set
• Brownbilt Shoes
I* Silk Lingerie
Oome Early! Stay Late! Visit
every department in this big, up
to-date department store!
K V
Biggest, Best and Most Com
plete Department Store in
Salisbury—Come and See!
TUESDAY
March 3,1936
7 to 10 P. M.
Re-decorated and Remodeled
lnterior*-New Fixtures
New Spring Merchandise
Bring the Whole Family and Spend the Evening with Us I
EFIRD'S DEPT. STORE
Salisbury, N. C. ||j