Timber Thinning
Contest For 4-ltl
Clubs Under Way
of foiMmorrn To1
Giro $175 la Cash Pris
es For BestWork
By H. O. QOLVARD
(Assistant Ooaaty Agent)
The Wilkes OlMBber of Com-!
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merce and the ro&l Agricultur
al Extension Service are again
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sponsoring the contest in timber
hinning or timber stand im
provement for Wilkes County
4-H Club boys. Prizes are award
ed for the best work done as
follows: 1st prize $50.00; 2nd
prize $40.00; 3rd prize $30.00;
4th prize $20.00; 5th prise
$10.00; and $5.00 each to the
next five best records. These
contestants must be between the
ages of 14 and 19 years and are
required to thin or improve one
half acre of young timber. This
work is being done between now
and April 1..1950.
Sixteen of these projects are
already under way. Carl Cleary,
Bill Harrold and Charles Hig
glns, are members of the Moun
tain View 4-H Club and have
their projects already marked
off and ready to start work. The
following is a list from Ronda
school with projects started:
Warner Hoots, Roger Edwards,
Felix Tharpe, C. A. Burchette,
Jr., Dwight Byrd, Thomas Hurt
and Gilbert Wood. Another pro
ject is being conducted by Jim
my Cleary, of the North Wilkes-,
boro school. Howard Triplett and
Shelmer Waters, from Mt. Pleas
ant school, are ready to start
their work. From the Wilkesboro
school we have Herbert and Wal
ter Broyhill, who will be thin
ning pines during their school I
holidays.
We have approximately five
other projects to be started in
the contest this year. This work
is to be completed by April 1,
and following this, judging will
be done by the Extension For
ester. In addition to measuring
off the one-half acre plot, each
boy has received definite in
struction on tree selection, prun
ing, cording wood, spreading of!
brush and record keeping.
'Quack' Remedies Fail
To Make Hens Lay
"Quack remedies" to make
hens lay?such as feeding red
pepper and strong herbs?are
rapidly becoming a thing of the
past among negro farm families
in Halifax County, says D. J.
Knight, negro county agent for
the State College Extension
Service.
Instead, Knight says, house
wives are resorting to more
scientific methods to increase
the egg production of their
flocks.
The county agent says many
farm women who attended neigh
borhood meetings this fall show
ed great interest in improving
their poultry management prac
tices. They asked questions a
bout feeding practices, age of
birds, and use of oyster shell3,
water, and grazing crops.
According to Knigjbt, low egg
production may be due to one
pr more of a number of factors,
3uch. as getting chicks too early
or too late, lack of a balanced
ration, weak protein feed, or
failure to use oyster shells.
Farm families in Halifax, the
county agent adds, are making
plans to correct these and other
defects in an effort to obtain
more eggs from their hens dur
ing the coming season.
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TRIBUTE TO REV. W.T. COMER
By RUTH UNNET
Rev. W. T. Comer, of Stony
Point, was dead and buried be
fore many of his Wilkes friends
knew anything about it. Mr.
Comer, a native of Yadkin coun
ty, lived most of his life in the
Lovelace community and had
preached and taught school near
ly all over Wilkes county.
Though Mr. Comer was a some
what peculiar man, he was an
exceedingly ahle man; his intel
lect and his fine sermons were
actually of so high an order that
not a great many were capable
of appreciating either.
He pleased the esoteric few.
Mr. Comer was not popular. But
he was truly valued by the more
discriminating of his audiences. |
Mr. Comer, was probably prin
cipal of the first school taught
at Roaring River in the old
building, completed in 1908 and
which burned a few years ago.
He taught there the winter of
1908-1909 with the late Mrs.
Minnie Myers Cook as his as
sistant. He also taught summer
schools for teachers and ad
vanced students: Though a cap
able and thorough instructor,
Mr. Comer possibly made all
subjects too difficult and over
stressed the rules and intricacies
of grammar. But today they are
understressed. There are stu
dents in classes as high as Mr.
Comer ever reached who are al
most completely illiterate in
English.
Mr. Comer was gifted but not
envious; he was capable of ap
preciating ministers even more
powerful than he?such as Rev.
Green Brown and his sons; Rev.
Parks Gwaltney and Rev. Jay
Gwaltney; and Rev. W. E. Lin
ney. Rev. N. T. Jarvis said of
him, "No preacher in this cor
ner of the State had done more
to encourage and hold up the
hands of young ministers than
W. T. Comer." Though some
what contentious and argumen
tative at the Brier Creek Associ
ations, Mr. Comer preached
beautiful sermons. One of his
finest at Cranberry was abont
the seed corn and the fitches
and how people who are seed
corn must stand more threshing
and trouble to develop them to
the noblest heights than light
and chaffy fitches which are of
little worth.
Probably Mr. Comer was seed
corn. He had seen trouble and
was usually poor In this world'3
goods and not the recipient of
the praise and notice he merit
ed. During recent times he is
said to have been feeble in body
and mind.
"Willie Comer" as he called
himself, shone in a flame of
"purest ray serene" of brilliant
intellect and fiery zeal for the
Master.
His first wife, who was a
widow, a Mrs. Walker, whose
maiden name was Howard, was
a friend of my mother. They
had two sons, Commie and Ern
est. Ernest was a former teach
er in the North Wilkesboro
school. His second wife was Miss
Ethel Caudill, of North Wilkes
boro, a former teacher in rural
schools of Wilkes and a first
cousin of Dr. R. Paul Caudill.
They have several children. Mr.
Comer also had two stepsons,
Charlie and Harvey Walker,
whom he seemed to love even
more than his own children.
One of the Walker boys was
drowned while being transport
ed overseas to fight in World
War I. Mr. Comer was about 79,
or near the age of Rev. N. T.
Jarvis.
Valuable Property
For SALE
Four-Room House; fourteen acres
land with 643 foot frontage on
Highway 421; 4 miles west North
Wilkesboro; beautiful building
sites; plenty of water. If interest
ed, investigate this property.
T. C. Wagner
At Wilkes Barber Shop
North Wilkesboro, N. C.
ADMIN ISTRATOR'S NOTICE
North Carolina, Wilkes County:
Having qualified as Admini
strator of the estate of H. L.
Meechem, deceased, late of Wilkes
County, North Carolina, this is to
notify all persons having claims
against the estate of said do
ceased to exhibit them to the un
dersigned at North Wilkesboro,
North Carolina, on or before No
vember 22nd 1960, or this notice
will be pleaded in bar ef t'
Hid
recovery. f
All persons indebted to s%UI ?
estate will please make immedi- *
ve payment.
This the 22nd day of November,
1949.
IIOYLE M. HUTCHENS,
Adm. Estate H. L. Meeehem,
Dec'd 12-29-dt(T)
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