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N. C. 4-H Qub Members Are Busy In War Effort Program Despite a heavy schedule of »«rurk to help increase production •qf foods and conserve vital ma 4terials to meet wartime needs, -*-H Club boys and girls in North ^Carolina and throughout the na tion are determined to improve «heir home surroundings with natural beauty for the duration -mni for the peace to follow. 'Their well-laid plans of beau tifying home grounds include trees, shrubs, and flow c*s, removing unsightly old thuddings, repairing fences, re 5>*iriting houses and bams, and 5»l*wn* wind breaks to prevent ■3U&1 erosion. The rural youth, will enter their records of achievements in the 19*3 National 4-H Home SQcounds Beautification activity compete for awards provided h*y Mrs. Charles R. Walgreen, Oucago horticultural enthusiast 'These recognitions of outstanding ^accomplishments are based upon ••county, State, and national levels land include medals, gold watches aa«i all-expense trips to the Na fcjamsU 4-H Club Congress in Chi •cagt), respectively. This activity will be conducted udong with othfer 4-H wartime gwujects of production and con servation, by the Extension Serv ice sol State Agricultural colleges sand fee B. S. Department of Ag Wtaaltural cooperating. Full de hattk are obtainable from county ii ihaiiiiim agents. Piney Creek News - Mis. H. L. Halsey is recovering "nicely from a recent sierious op <eratiOn at the Wilkes Hospital 'Ataoog those from the communi ty Who ’visited her during the Week did, were: H. L. Halsey Wid Hugh Warden Halsey, Mrs. <*. IE. Tferry and daughter, Mar SSTet Ann, Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Billings and son, and McDale -Weaver. tfir. and Mrs. Garrett Searcy, \if 'Wireton-Salem, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Halsey and small daughter, Carlita, were dinner guests of-Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hash, Sunday. /Mr. and Mrs. Searcy were ac cezqpanied back to Winston-Sa lem by Mrs. Wayne Hash, who ptSms ^o visit her husband, Pvt. Sfattgoi Hash, at Fort Blanding, jmSES*.- * xx j McDale Weaver, Tom Woodie and Miss Lacy Lee Weaver left for Maryland, Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Felts and Miss Hazel Billings, of N. Wilkes boro, spent the week end with Mrs. Edd Billings. Brack Rutherford, oldest son of Mr.and Mrs. A. M. Rutherford, was taken to the Wilkes Hospital, ' Sunday. He was taken critically ill, Saturday night. , Those visiting Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Perry, Sunday, were Misses Murdthy and Marie Black and ^Pastime Warden, Tom and Troy Cox Black, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Wan’ Hoy and Mrs. Myrtle Hal SPARTA SPECTACLES Mrs. Constance Garvey iL ..— -—jy ; i Well, she dood it again. Stop ped with a wheeze and a gasp right on the longest, steepest mountain she. could find. We thought we knew what was wrong this time, but just to make sure, got out and made a survey of all the vulnerable spots we knew. (It’s Old Huldy we’re talking about, of course.) The starter worked—plenty of gas— plugs o. k.—so we knew it was the gas line. Being'a more or less experienc ed mechanic—gotta be to drive Huldy—we knew we had to blow that gas line out We’d watched the operator and knew just how. So we dived under the seat and came up with the tire pump. But nary a pliers nor a wrench could we find. So we had no choice but to sit there and hope for somebody to come along who would laid us some. To make a .long story short, however, they didn’t After an hour, we de cided to drift back down that mountain to the level and see if we could make contact with some sort of human habitation. So we take off the brakes and lets ’er drift Ever try to guide a car back ward down a long, long, moun tain? A crooked mountain? It really isn’t so hard, but one sort of dreads meeting a car back wards coming around a hairpin curve. And it’s also sort of hard on necks to look backward while you sit forward. (One really should be an owl on such occa ggn®—they can turn ttheir beads Square around — I’ve walked around them just to watch. But I never could rhyme out why they didn’t wring their necks.) Finally, we backed up to a lit tle store and stopped. Two young men and a girl came out to help, and luckily they found the prop er tools. That little glass jigger below the engine was half full of sand, and two forlorn, dejected looking little black bugs were re moved from it with the sand. Small wonder the line was stop ped! Aftef a short session with I the tire pump on the gas line, she I snorted, fired, and started pur ring like a — no, not a kitten— Supplies We cany a good many of* fice supply items and can or* der others that we do not have in stock. This is ren dered more as a service. Our prices are low. Letter &. Bill Files, with Index CARBON PAPER OF ALL KINDS Typewriter Carbon, 3 sheets, 10c; Box, $2.50, up Letter Size, $1.60 —' Legal Size, $1.75 RIBBONS 75c each ADDING MACHINE BOLLS, lSe , MERCHANTS SALES BOOKS Sc; dot 45c—Name and Address imprinted. Low Prices! LETTER FILE POLDERS, boi^ __$1.75 PBESIO STAPLER, loaded witk staples_J_. RUBBER STAMPS—RUBBER STAMP PADS LEDGER BOOKS AND LEDGER SHEETS The Alleghany News OUR DEMOCRACY——M* (AMERICAN STEEL. -AND EVEN MORE IMPORTANT/S -> THE STEEL IN OUR BACKBONES* her kitten days are long past more like a Nubian lion, I guess —and we made it on to the office, only about two hours late. Bet next time we go out with Huldy we take along pliers, a wrench or two, and a little bal ing wire wouldn’t be too far fetched. Now we want to know who is selling us sand and little black bugs along with our gas? Must be some of that “black market” stuff we’ve been reading about. Or sabotage, maybe. If we just look about a little we can always find a thousand 1 things to be thankful for, can’t we? For instance, the length and severity of the winter just past up here has been the subject of much discussion and “beefing.” But if we had a season like the ones described in the following clipping, we could have some thing to beef about. Miss Minnie , Massey, who spends her summers in the mountains—found the clip ping in an old family Bible, and very graciously contributed it to Specs. Read it and count your blessings. We’ve reached our ; 999th one, and before the day is over, we’ll probably bat a thou sand. THJtEE REMARKABLE SUMMERS “There have been' three sum- . mers in the United States in which there was scarcely a month in which the temperature would not have been more appropriate ] to winter than to “the season , when voluptuous Nature surrend- ' era her treasures to the wanton J hands of man.” “The most notable of these in appropriate summers was in 1816 in which year January and Feb ruary were warm and springlike. March was cold ar\d stormy. Vegetation had gotten well along in April when real winter set in. Snow and sleet fell on seventeen different days in May. In June , there was either frost or snow ev- , ery night but three. The snow . was five inches deep for several days in succession in the interi or of New York, and from ten inches to three feet in Vermont and Maine. July was cold and frosty; ice formed as thick as window panes in every one of the New England States. August Was > still worse; ice formed nearly an , inch in thickness and killed near ly every green thing in the Unit ed States ' i \ which had be&v kept from the crop of 1815, sold for five and ten dollars a bushel; the. buyers purchasing for seed. . j* .. “On May 10th, 1839;' «ow fell to the depth of a foot in James town, Ye., and was piled up in Sheep Raising* Very Profitable Raleigh, N. C.t May 11—-Al though Commissioner of. Agri :ulture W. Kerr Scott is one of the State’s leading dairymen, he Etas come to the conclusion that ‘a few sheep properly handled will pay dividends unsurpassed ay another major farm animal”. In an effort to prove that sheep raising is a profitable business, commissioner Scotty working Bitough the marketing division af the State Department of Ag riculture, is endeavoring to im port this spring over 5,000 ewes from the ranches of Wyoming and Montana. These sheep, explained Scott, will be bought by the department ihrough a revolving fund set up for this purpose and will be re told at cost to any farmers inter red in growing sheep. “Under present conditions, the sapital investment for the breed ng ewe can be returned to the )wner in about a year,” declared Scott recently ih explaining the relatively fast profits which may je realized. . Pointing out that the number )f sheep in this State have de fined from 560,000 to 1870, to 60, >p0 head today, Scott said Sat urday that “it is the patriotic du :y of every farmer to do every thing possible to help with the var effort By producing sheep le will not only put North Caro ina back on the map as regards! this industry, but will at the iame time produce meat and slothing for lend-lease and for nilitary and civilian use.” Bashing his statement on the fact that there are 280,000 farms n this state, Commissioner Scott isserted that if one-tenth of these farms had only ten sheep each, North Carolina could rank with my State in the Southeast in iheep production. Asked a few days ago why these iheep are being “brought in from way out West”, Scott replied hat at the present .time our iheep production is so low that needing ewes -axe not available n sufficient numbers to supply he demand; and second, that >reeding ewes grown in the West index aiid conditions come into he State largely free, from the itemach worm, which along with logs, has been toe greatest men ice to the growing of sheep ia his area. • ,iVia» Carlyle Is Speaker; One Al leghany Girl Is Among Graduates Appalachian State Teachers College graduated 109 young men and women in the commencement exercises which concluded Friday and in which Irving Carlyle, State Senator from Forsyth Coun ty, was the main speaker. This was the forty-third annual commencement, the thirteenth in which the college has conferred bachelor’s degrees. “Education for Life” was the theme of Senator Carlyle’s ad dress. “In the course of life,” he said men must live by more than bread alone. He must take ad vantage of his opportunities. The high plane of life is made so by mental development One who pursues an education today should have a conception of ed ucation. Even in a time like this it is well to remember that the world still contains indestructible values, and the preservance of these values is a task to which each of us is called. Some of these values are: First, the ca pacity of the human race to ad vance and progress. Second, the world moves constantly in the di rection of a greater freedom of mankind. We must break the fetters by which men have been bound, on political planes, the planes of physical well being; the economic, and the mental phase. In North Carolina the most valu able possession is its people, with their solid, dependable qual ities. Third, the challenge of one’s better nature for the things that are right in every situation. The value of a thing is determined by its cost This is true of education, both in its development and its application. The world looks to you to work and sacrifice, if need be, for these indestructable val ues.” Patyrae Reeves, of Alleghany, is among the graduates. Furches News John M. Tucker, M. F. Pruitt, Lester Church and Ralph Brown left for Maryland, Saturday. Rev. G. R. Blackburn filled his regular appointment at Belview Baptist church, Sunday and Sun day night. Those visitmg at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Faircloth, Sunday, were Mrs. Guy Burchett, Mrs. Glenn Sturgill, Mrs. Jenny Warden, Inez Burchett, Jacquel ine Burchett and Misses Kather ine and Mildred Church. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Church and children, Clifford and Rose Lee, visited Mr. and Mrs. Roy Rose, Saturday night. Miss Inez Burchett spent Sun day night with Miss Faye Fair cloth. Misses Reba Rose and Eunice Mabe left for Maryland, last week. Poultrymen who plan to raise chicks for meat production next year, can improve their stock by selecting breeders for fast feath ering, efficient rapid growth, and superior meat production. Manufacturers of bale wrappers made of cotton will receive an indemnity of 40 cents on each wrapper, instead of 35 cents. U. S. poultry laying flocks are 15 per cent larger than a year ago and the production per bird is 3 per cent higher. * ★ WhotfyoMj&Mf With 4R BONDS purchase domestic V. * ut into War you back So start si |«» for ■^■ yoa win ta My thsas. Joia tbs Mfa aO -■-n ■ D. Jf ***— --—— ** -«-—a— - » WlfwIWfSI BY W. O. HOOPER Floyd and George Crouse have been terracing successfully with out having a single ditch break over. Proper spacing has pre vented any terrace from being overloaded and good strong ridg es have been built and carefully maintained. When these brothers terrace, they hitch a team to the plow and another team to a drag. After a furrow is plowed, the drag comes right behind and pushes the dirt up on the ridge. This saves an enormous amount of time, because the team doesn’t have to be changed back and forth from plow to drag and it is almost impossible to build a good terrace without both of these im plements. These men will tell you that terracing is hard work and that it requires effort to maintain them properly; but they will al so tell you that when they quit terracing, they will quit fanning. A bulletin board placed on the | kitchen wqfl and used for inter family reminders and messages is helpful in many households, eni AVM**/ V I NEVER. I ✓ _iMVI OF PEDDLER y^CT\ WOT WITH SUCH FI WE BARGAINS IW OUR HOME NEWSPAPER/! '• 11 . ■. , I ^ Rom where I sit Sv«-» &t/ Joe Marsh An this talk about people over 40 being too eld for a new job! Well, you ought to meet Pop Graham, the new foreman at the iron works. Pop must be over seventy—yet soon as the war broke out he started out on a brand new career. “1 reckon Unde Sam can use me note,’* he says—and pitches in with both hands, making armor plate. Yes, there’s a lesson for the young folks in Pop Graham’s w/ spirit. And when the hard day's work is over, you’ll find Pop y relaxing and having a cool re freshing glass of bear. From where 1 sit that’s still another lesson we can learn from older people—moderation. Moderation in enjoying good beer...tolerance for others who enjoy this 'friendly, wholesome beverage of moderation. O im I-' ■: :-.k 'Avfvi1 v'.‘i PBUC STOBES OFFER YOU BARGAINS rirstafd ADHESIVE TAPE WIDTH* m«ackrslf 23* » IsHS KOOUtl Handy Tin Firata id A QUIK-BAHDS 7 * * tmtt noouct /ABSORBENT iy* ' COTTON 40x-33c B & T Drug Co. Sparta, N. C. Family Biidgat Sal* savings plus Rexall's regular low prices make it doubly easy to add to your War Savings stamp book right now! Reg. 49c 6 Ox. Size SHOOS SHAMPOO and rag. 49c A Ox. Six* snout hasp Tome Give hair and scalp prop, er care I Low cost, too! Milk Magnesia Tooth Paste-- lie & 39c Briten Tooth Paste _ 19c Uttle liver Pills — 19c €Wd'vSpecWs - — Hitt PINT jas« MtK Of
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