Chauncy, Jordan has returned to Alabama, after a visit here with his mother, Mrs. Arthur Jor dan. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Barr, of West Jefferson, were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Reeves, Sunday. Miss Helen Truitt spent the week end with her parents at Vox. Mrs. James Doughton spent the week end with her mother, Mrs. Bess Spicer. Mr .and Mrs. Howard Rector have returned from a visit with his parents near Lenoir. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Irwin have returned to Kingsport, after spending a few days at their home here. Harold Bates, of South Caro lina, visited Mrs. Bates here, re cently. She and her small son returned home with him, after an extended visit with her mother, Mrs. Bert Settle. Miss Sally Bledsoe has been ill with flu for the past week. Misses Marye Kennedy and Pauline Osborne spent the week end in Nashville, Tenn. Ralph Evans is confined to his hbme with mumps. Thomas Smith, who was form erly employed by the REA, here, has returned to his home in Boone. Mrs. Coy Richardson; who has been seriously ill with pneumon ia, is somewhat improved. Mrs. Richardson Hostess To Group The Lucille Ford Circle of the W. M. S. of the Sparta Baptist church met with Mrs. Clennel Richardson, Tuesday night at 7 o’clock. Mrs. Hugh Choate, program leader, gave an interesting pro ^*»gram, assisted by Mrs. Ben T Reeves, Mrs. J. B. Reed and Mrs. '* Bruce Wagoner. After the program, refresh ments were served by the hostess to the twelve members present. The next meeting will be held with Mrs. D. C. Bledsoe. Points On Darning And Mending By Miss Frances Capel - Most mending is either patch ing or darning. Patches: 1. Cut patch on straight of ma terial. 2. If material has pattern, match each detail. 3. If garment to be mailed is old and faded, try to get a patch to match it from the hem or some other place. 4. Always shrink material to be used to mend a washed gar ment. Darning: 1. Plain darns are suitable for mending small holes, snags and worn places. 2. Use thread that blends with material. 3. Work for flatness. 4. Usually it is better to darn on right side of material. Planting small Irish potatoes in Louisiana gave better stands and larger yields than where hole tubers were cut into pieces. IF YOUR NOSE "CLOSES IIP" TONIGHT H Here's mighty good news . . . fl your nose "closes i up” tonight and difficult, put 3-pur rnair— breathing pose Vicks Va-tro-nol up each nostril. Va-tro-nol does 3 important things. It (1) shrinks swollen membranes, (2) soothes irritation, (3) relieves tran sient nasal congestion. It brings more comfort, »waiwM breathing easier, thus invites sleep... And remember, it helps rSdef^0” to VA-TRO-NOL Meetings Held By H. D. Groups ZION The Zion home demonstration club, of Edwards Cross Roads, met at the'home of Mrs. Lee A. Andrews last Thursday with five members and two visitors pres ent. The president opened the meeting with the singing of “America, the Beautiful” and the collect reading of the club women of America. Miss Frances Capel, H. D. agent, gave an interesting dis cussion on team work making homemaker’s work lighter and producing more food in 1944. Some of the' members began knitting sweaters for the Ameri can Red Cross. The next meeting will be held with Mrs. E. C. Truitt, Feb. 3, at 2 p. m. ELK CREEK The Elk Creek home demon stration club met with Miss Pearl Fields, Friday, when officers for the coming year were elected. They were: Mrs. S. O. Gambill, president; Mrs. Jesse Me Osborne, vice-president; and Mrs. Jim Mc Knight, secretary and treasurer. Miss Frances Capel, home dem onstration agent, discussed “Time for Teamwork”, after which, Miss Fields served delicious refresh ments. The next meeting will be held Feb. 4 with Mrs. J. T. Finney. BLEVINS CROSS ROADS The Blevins Cross Roads home demonstration club met with Mrs. W. C. Evans, Ennice, Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Haswell Rector, president, was in charge of the meeting. Except for ’a few discussions rel ative to club work, the election of officers for the coming year, constituted the chief part of the program. Mrs. Rector, president, and Mrs. Kyle Edwards, secre tary and treasurer, had given such splendid service during 1943 that they were unanimously re elected to serve for 1944. Mrs. Gwyn Truitt was elected vice president and Mrs. Elizabeth Mc Millan Easterling was elected club reporter. Mrs. Evans, assisted by Mrs. Paul Crouse, served a delicious sweet course with coffee. Mrs. Haswell Rector will be Zl Xrenjqa^ qnp aqi o; ssajsoq West Coast packers have been authorized to release 142 million pounds of drie'd raisins and prunes for sale to civilians through regular trade channels, reports the War Food Adminis tration. Attention Tobacco Growers! Buy Your Covers NOW! 40” Wide 44x36 Weight Special 8c Yd. This can also be used for wallpaper canvas. t YARDS WIDE WITH GROMMENTS 32x28 WEIGHT 7c Sq. Yd. C PENNY AND CO. North Carolina ... ■s A Winter Season Shortcake NO need for passing up that all time family favorite, the short cake, just because strawberry sea son has passed. Readily available in every market are apples and cranberries, which combine to make a delectable shortcake—yes, one as colorful and as good to eat as any of your old summertime varieties. Serve this spicy ' seasonable sauce on double decker biscuit type shortcakes for a new family thrill, and lop It with a bit of hard sauce—the brown sugar variety. Of course, fruit alone doesn’t make a shortcake. It’s the light ness, flakiness, tenderness of the shortcake' biscuits that’s real “proof of this pudding.” To be sure of the best results, use a good shortening, like the new blended shortening, scientifically prepared and home tested to assure the best In performance. Blended shorten ing is good In that brown sugar hard sauce, mentioned, too. Apple and Cranberry Shortcake Te prepare the Sauce: Boil, together for 3 minutes % cup sugar and % cup water. Add 1 cup diced apple, cook about 5 min utes. Add 1 cup washed cranber ries, and a stick of cinnamon. Cook until cranberries pop, about 5 min utes. Shortcake Biscuits M cup blended shortening 2 cups sifted flour 3 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 3s cup milk 1 tablespoon blended shortening Make a biscuit dough by cutting the '/s cup blended shortening into the sifted flour, baking powder and salt. Add milk, stirring quickly but thoroughly. Turn dough onto a floured board. Knead gently. Roll out about Ms inch thick. Cut into eight 3-inch rounds. Brush tups of four rounds with melted shorten ing and place second sound on top. Bake in a hot oven i450°F.) about 15 minutes. Separate the rounds. Cover the bottom with apple cranberry sauce. Place top round pn and cover it generously with the sauce. Top with hard sauce, if desired Maple Shade News Rev. C. R. Allison visited sev eral people who were ill in this community last week. J. M. Anderson is improving from a two weeks’ illness of flu. Mr. and Mrs. Loyd McMeans, of Kenneth Square, Pa., visited his mother, Mrs. Lelia McMeans, recently. Miss Maxine Parsons spent Fri day night with Mrs. V. B. Phipps. Lloyd Delp spent Tuesday with his aunt, Mrs. Myrtle Halsey, of Piney Creek. V. B. Phipps was a business visitor in Sparta, Monday. Mrs. Greek Parsons and daugh ter, Aileen, returned home Mon day, from a ten-day visit with her daughter at Baltimore, Md. Topia News ljilrs. Carey D. Blevins and chil dren, Morris and Vesta Grace, of Piney Creek, visited Mrs. Belle Blevins, Sunday. Thurmond Fitzgerald and fam ily have moved to Morganton, where he has accepted a job cut ting timber. Pvt. John R. Fields, of Camp Maxey, Texas, was a dinner guest of Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Pugh, Mon day night. Miss Lorene Moxley has re turned home, after spending the past week end with her aunt, Mrs. Charlie Williams in Mount Airy. Mrs. Lena Black visited Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Caudill, Sunday. ENGAGEMENT MADE Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Smith, of Farmville, N. C., announce the engagement of their daughter, Yvonne Lee, to Allen Ray Drake, gon of Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Drake, of Carthage, Term. Miss Smith is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Wagoner, of Sparta. The wedding will take place in February. Stocks of wheat in interior mills, elevators and warehouses are about 22 percent lower than the holdings of last year. Stratford News (Mrs. Thelma Mabe) (Stall Correspondent) Mrs. Fannie Reeves visited her mother, Mrs. S. U. Atwood, Sun day. Mrs. Atwood remains very ill. Alva Joines has recently re covered from a case of mumps. Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Rector and family have moved to the A. O. Joines farm, here. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rector visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Shores, Sunday. Little Barry Kay, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dorman Atwood, who has been ill, is improving. Mrs. J. E. Irwin recently visit ed Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Williams, who are confined to their home by illness. LITTLE PINE 4-H CLUB HAS GOOD PROGRAM _ Little Pine 4-H club met Jan uary 10 at Little Pine school. Four of the 4-H club members gave a very interesting program on “It’s Time For Teamwork.” They pointed out ways that work ing with their families as a team can be of service to our nation in the production and conservation program, ways of sharing farm and home work and better fi nance management. The club members decided that they would keep a list of things they were doing at home to help their parents for one ..month, also a record of what they spend. The meeting was then turned over to the Home Agent, Miss Frances Capel, who discussed the importance of teamwork and dis cussed with each member the project they had chosen for 1944, after which the club stood and repeated their pledge, with this the second meeting was adjourn ed. The USDA has announced a 1944 program for winter cover crop seed which will support prices on hairy vetch, common vetch, crimson clover, and rye grass seeds at levels from 5 to 40 percent higher than last year. Algerian Briar Has Arrived! More Coming! You Must Get Your Burls In This Winter If You Want The Top Price For Them. Phone or Write: D. & P. Pipe Works SAM PORTER, Gen. Mgr. 11 .„.l J ...■Win .... '1 ... -—I. Timely Hints By RUTH CURRENT State Hone Demonstration Agent Small scratches on furniture often disappear if they are rub bed with nut meats. The oil in the nuts darkens and conceals the scratch. An oily nut like a pecan or butternut is best. Cut the kernel with a knife and rub the cut side into the scratch. Then polish the surface of the wood with a- soft dry cloth. A mixture of two-thirds linseed oil and one-third turpentine is also good for rubbing scratches out of sight, as is a reliable commer cial furniture polish. Serve shopped, leftover poul try meat, creamed and hot on toast as a pie, topped with bis cuit rounds, or with mashed po tato, rice, noodles, or spaghetti. To make it turkey or chicken a la king, give it richer sauce with egg yolks added, and perhaps mushrooms and some leftover peas or string beans. Or, mix bits of poultry meat with mashed potatoes. Shape in to cakes and brown in a little fat for a tasty lunchtime dish. Mix leftover stuffing with bits of poultry meat or gravy and brown to make well-flavored hash. Or, mix stuffing, leftover meat, and gravy, all three, and brown in the oven for a scallop. Try frozen custards as a nu tritious and delicious wartime ice cream. Whole egg and egg yolks combined with cream, top milk, half and half, whole milk or eva porated milk make delightful and economical frozen custard des serts for use in the home. This method of making cus tards is simple. The procedure is to, beat the eggs slightly and then add the sugar or sweetening and stir until blended. Add liquid and blend thoroughly. If the liquid is heated and then poured gradually over the beaten eggs, with constant stirring, the time of cooking is shortened. For frozen custards, cook tc desired consistency; cool; poui into pan; and place in the freez ing unit. In three hours time you will have a grand wartime ice cream. Consumers will use their pro cessed food stamps to buy fruil spreads. These include the greet! stamps in Book Four. BOONE MARKET IS TO CLOSE ON JAN. 20 (Continued from Page One) tire crop averaging 51c per pound. Also outstanding was the to bacco sale made by Jack Napier, a tenant farmer with Charlie Delp. Mr. Napier sold 1,470 pounds of Burley tobacco which brought $776.30 net. This was an average of more than 52c per pound. These, as well as many other farmers of the county, sold their crop on the Boone market. OBITUARY SANDERS A. STEWART Sanders A. Stewart was born July 6, 1864. He was married to Bettie A. Lyons, May 25, 1898 and to this union was born one daughter, “Pearlie”, who depart ed this life at an early age. He was a kind and affectionate husband, father and friend, be ing ever-ready to administer any little deed of kindness to his j family and friends; as much as to say in his every-day walks and ! talks that “I am not living for myself alone.” Christ has promised, “If I go away, I will come again and re ceive you unto myself. That where I am there ye may be al so”. : He died January 1, 1944, mak ing his stay on earth 79 years, S months and 25 days. He leaves a companion and on& grandson, William Pearl Bedt saul, who was reared by hi^ grandparents and is now serving his country in the U. S. Air Foro es. Many neices, nephews and ft. host of friends are left to mourft his death. Funeral services were held in the home of the deceased and conducted by Rev. Mack Brooks and Rev. Tyre Brooks. Many friends, relatives and neighbors attended. Interment was in thfc Mountain View cemetery. CARD OF THANKS We wish to express, sincere thanks for the sympathy and help of our friends and neighbors during the recent ili~ ness and death of our hei-ewed husband and grandfather.. Mrs. S. A. Stewart and family. Classified Ads LOST: Dog, black and whiter jip. Name “Herman Snow”- ors collar. $10.00 reward. Pleaeses notify Glenn Smith-. 1-13-Jtp* WANTED — Fresli gathered Balm Giliad Buds at 40c pest pound. Send by parcel past. Cash or money order sent on «£• rival. Joseph Powell, 71& IParta mouth Ave., Bristol, Va. 1-13-ltp. F0& FlAVOR *NO E*rf* /UUP#£Sf' CAMELS COCK MTh IN THE "*** ««PS tbey say; pICKLK LU99ttt* for torpedo bo , DilCKn vly^Ph'b'anprane -nrWG WET" f Rowing a riveT r. P»»Sl" first the service ISj 7° <■> the fite Co- ’• SsySS/s Camrl. (BafL™"6 '» WAUGH’S Clearance Sale Began Friday, Jan. 7th of Fall and Winter Coats Suits Dresses Check on your wardrobe, then check with us . . . for the oppor tunity to have the most beautiful, long-wearing coats you need! “Winter coat weather” stretches months ahead, so take advantage of this end-of-the-season clearance! All Hats Drastically Reduced!