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Emmett H. Smith Has Made Record In Trading Real Estate By Staff Writer BUrnett H. Smith, prominent Bfbglimij county citizen of th< Budce community, has had an T—■‘I*"1 career in dealing in real nl >li and not only has made « financial success, but after mans trades and exchanges, is agair Bring at the scene of his birth. Haring made a success in his ribnsen profession, that of a “land taader,” and burned to the 'scenes of his childhood, Mr 'Smith is making a real contribu ttkm to the war effort by purchas ing war bonds. He had a son ir "World War I and now the tradi " UBon is being carried on in the present struggle by two grand :UB. He was born April 15, 1874, «ar Eunice, in the eastern pari the county and grew up with W> educational advantages. Since -Be has never been able to read ^—1 write until recent years, he 'rieserves much credit in view of Wnriart Bat despite his education al handicap he has become a suc cessful business man. The son of the late Mr. and Mrs. -Aabary Smith, he worked on Berms near his home during his -early life for a sum of twenty to Bwenty-five cents per day. At Be age of 20, he walked to 'Cracketfs Depot, Va., caught a Brain and went to Coopers, W. Va., Bo work as a common laborer. Baler he helped to build a section rif the Norfolk and Western Rail road near Iron Ridge, Va., work iing there for two years, rolling a 'wheel barrow and using a pick sand shovel at ten cents per hour. ’The next year he worked -in the mines at Coaldale, W. Va., at Bl-20 per day. '-Soon, however, Mr. Smith re sumed to North Carolina and purchased 75 acres of woodland 'near Hare, known now as the Henderson Cheek farm. He be ' gan work, clearing the land which Be had purchased at $1.50 per acre "and for ten months he '“batched” there, except for short Intervals when his sister, now Mrs. Pinkie Phipps, of Galax, came to cook for him. At that dime, rattlesnakes and “hoot” wris were plentiful in that semi wilderness country, he declares. 4a 1894, he sold his farm, and abdSaj'to’Peacli Bottom, Va. Dur ing thef ollowing years, he bought and sold six farms. These in deluded the Spicer Higgins farm, i. John Richardson, he iiss Martha Riqh of the late Mr. CARS Will Pay OPA Ceiling Price Duke Bledsoe Sparta, N. C. EMMETT H. SMITH the Sina Moxley farm and the Henry Richardson farm, near En nice, where Mr. and Mrs. Has well Rector now live. It was then that he purchased his pres ent farm. He is now back within one mile of the place where he was born, living on a part of the farm of his grandfather, the late John Blevins. Mr. Smith has been rather nomadic in his life and has mov ed and lived in several localities, but contrary to the old saying that a “rolling stone gathers no moss”, he says he has made a success in every move. More over, he points out that neither he nor his wife inherited any money or property. From 1922 to 1924 he operated an ‘Army” store in Sparta, selling over $18,000.00 worth of used and re-claimed army goods placed on sale after World War I. In re cent years he has invested a con siderable sum of money in Galax, where he owns seven houses and lots. Some of these homes he has built himself. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have a fam ily of six children. The oldest son, Estal, served in World War I, and as a result of being gassed, died several years ago in the veteran’s hospital at Memphis, Tenn. Other children include: Roy Smith, of Bluefield, W. Va.; Earl Smith, of Bel Air, Md-; Mrs. O. H. Bedsaul, Mr* A R. Shaw and Mrs. Hobert Jones, all of Eu nice. Besides his present investments, Mr. Smith says that he has given his children more than $1,200.00 worth of real estate and in the Fourth and Fifth War Loan drives he purchased $5,000.00 worth of war bonds. Two grandsons, Estal and Ken neth Bedsaul and one son-in-law, Hobert Jones, are now serving overseas in the U. S. Army. Methodist Group Met Thursday The Methodist W. S. C. S. met at the Sparta Methodist church last Thursday evening with Mrs. T. J. Carson as leader. Interesting talks were made by Mrs. H. K. Boyer on "The Sacred ness of Money” and Mrs. Dalton Warren on “Money in the Hands of Others.” Visitors were Mrs. Boyer, Mrs. A. F. Reeves and Miss Pearl Kastner. A picnic supper was served by the members. Any farmer may slaughter and deliver the meat from any num ber of livestock owned by him without license or permit or mak ing any report to the Federal Government, says the WFA. Potatoes will last longer in winter storage, say Extension specialists, if not cut, skinned, or bruised in digging and handling. WANTED! IVY and LAUBEL BURLS HIGHEST MARKET PRICE FA10! Also boundaries of Ivy and Lsuirel Boris Fraghf OFFICE AND SAW MILL WEST JEFFERSON, NORTH CARDONA Purchasing Agents: TODD DBUG CO »-**»-:- V yWWtK MURIVBy «i» V* Fleetwood, N. C. fc-.v ■■■ Carolina Briar Corp. 3. . BUT WAS BONDS! ' -5^4 r SPARTA i spectacles' BT EMOHYETTA REEVES In his poem, “The Task”, Cow per writes these lines: “_from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up”. Not so with Mr. W. B. Carpen ter, of Ennice. Of coruse, Mr. Carpenter didn’t use a bucket but he did have something in his well which was supposedly empty. Several months ago he started digging a well near his house and after they had gotten down about 18 feet, the pressure of farm du ties caused him to stop work. A few days ago, Mr. Carpenter went back to his well to resume digging and what should he find in the 18-foot hole but a rattle snake. He hooked a sharp wire on the end of a pole and snared the snake. It measured three and one-half feet in length and had nine rattles. According to Mr. Carpenter, the snake had not suffered from the lack of food, since he also found several frogs in the well. This made the third rattler that had been killed on the Carpenter farm this summer. One had three rattles and the oth er fourteen. Mrs. Elbert Crouse, of White head, was picking beans a few weeks ago, when she saw a rattler near her bean vines. She killed the snake, and now she says that she carries a hoe with her when she goes to the field to pick beans as well as when she goes to hoe corn. Pvt. and Mrs. Claude Evans, of Fort Bragg, recently visited Pvt. Evans’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. Al bert rEvans at Glade Valley. While at home, Pvt. Evans was digging some potatoes and hap pened to find one that measured 17 inches around. Pretty big po tato, and a pretty good one( too; it made enough potato salad to serve four people for three meals. If we could grow potatoes like that, the soldier on KP would have a prayer answered. We don’t know where this started, but we found it in a bul letin, “The Voice of Price” pre pared by the OPA for all ration boards. As for the authenticity of the calculation, we make no comment, except to say that we hope the prophecy comes true. Churchill was bom in 1874, is 70 years of age, took office in 1940 and has been in office for 4 years, all of which added to gether gives 3888. Hitler was born in 1889, is 55 years old, took office in 1933 and has been in power for 11 years; all added gives 3888. Roosevelt was born in 1882, is 62 years old, took office in 1933 and has been in office for 11 years; total is again 3888. 11 Duce was born in 1883, is 61 years old, took office in 1922 and has held that office 22 years, making a total of 3888. Stalin was born in 1879, is 65, took office in 1924 and has been in office 20 years, which adds up to 3888. Tojo was bora in 1884, is 60 years old and took office in 1941, holding that office 3 years. This also adds to a total of 3888. Now one-half of 3888 is 1944, according to the cal culation, and one-half of 1944 is 972, which means that the war will end the 9th month, the 7th day at two o’clock. The first let ter of each name, all added togeth er gives you CHRIST, the Supreme Ruler. Now, there it is . .. what we’re still trying to figure out is how the person who figured it out ever thought of such a thing. SpeaUag of the war ending soon, we heard that one soldier wrote his family not to bother with mailing any Christmas packages by October 15, as the postal authorities have requested. His reason: why he said he would be heme by Christmas. „ WANT ADS C» A WALW r ^ NOME CANNED PEACHES DELICIOUS WHETHER CLING OR FREE STONE Photo Courtosjr Ball Bros. Co. Clingstone peaches are excellent, but a great many persona prefer the flavor of freestone fruit and also find it somewhat less troublesome to prepare for canning. Whether cling or freestone, good raw peaches make good canned ones, provided they are canned right, but right canning can do nothing for greenish, bitterish, poorly flavored fruit uiaays lumorougn, name service Director lor Ben Brother! Compa ny, advises those who can peaches for the first time, and those whose canned peaches are below par, to select tree-ripened fruit, when pos sible, and sort it for size, color, and condition before washing and peel inf it Skins may be stripped from some well-ripened peaches after they have been scalded in boiling water about a minute and then dipped in cold water, but the general run of them require other methods of peeling. The lye method, while practical when a large quantity is to be canned, requires skill. To lye peel, put four tablespoons concentrated lye in an enamel or granite kettle. Add two gallons water and heat to boiling. Put peaches in a basket and hold in the boiling lye from thirty to sixty seconds; then wash immediately in cold water. Rinse through several waters to remove all skins and all traces. of lye. The fruit will darken if left in lye too long or if not well rinsed. Usually, paring with a knife is the most practical way of peeling. The peaches should be washed clean and drained before peeling. After peel ing, the fruit should be cut in half, and the stones discarded. Freestone fruit has better flavor and nicer, cleaner appearance if the red fibers are cut or scraped from the cavi ties. Dropping the peeled peaches into weak salt-vinegar water (one table spoon each to one gallon of water) helps prevent discoloring. They should not be left in the water long er than thirty or forty minutes and must be well rinsed before canning. Clingstone peaches are prepared for canning by removing the skins by one of the methods described above. Clings may be halved (be fore peeling) by cutting around the peach with a sharp knife, begin ning at the stem end and follow ing the crease. After cutting, hola the peach with both hands and twist in opposite directions. This pulls one side away from the stone. Use a regular peach pitting spoon, a teaspoon, or a knife to remove the stone from the other half of the peach. Peel the halves hr scald* in*, by the Ire method, or by paring with knife. If preferred, the peach mar be peeled and then halved by cutting around the stone with knife. The easiest way to remove the flesh from the stone is to cut it in wedge shaped slices. Miss Kimbrough recommends hot packing and processing in a hot water bath canner. Here are her two favorite recipes: (Use the long er cooking and processing time for clings and other very fine peaches.) Method L Make a sirup of 1 or 2 parts sugar to 1 of water, depending upon the amount liked and the amount available. Add peaches, a few at a time, and simmer until hot through (4 to 10 minutes). Pack into hot jars, layers overlapping, cavity side down. Cover with sirup in which peaches were cooked. Proc ess (cook in jar) 10 to 20 minutes in hot-water bath. Can leftover sirup for pudding or ice cream sauce. Method II. Add from 1 to 1% cup sugar and one cup boiling water to one gallon prepared peaches. Cook gently until peaches are hot through and sugar dissolved (10 to 20 min utes). Pack and process as instruct ed above. If there isn’t enough liq uid to cover peaches in jar, add boil ing water after they are packed. It one is short of sugar, a sirup may be made by boiling two cups white com sirup, two cups sugar, one cup water, and one-eighth tea spoon salt together five minutes. Honey may be used instead of sugar but it changes the flavor, and some times the color, of the fruit From three-quarters to one cpp sirup is usually needed for one quart of peaches. The fruit should be well covered with liquid. (If one runs out of sugar, peaches may be canned with plain boiling water. They keep just as well that way but do not have as good flavor.) Once fine fruit is selected, care fully prepared and processed right, canning success is assured if jars and caps are used according to the manufacturers’ instructions. These instructions will be found on printed leaflets packed in every carton. Cover Crops Renew Soil War Food Ad While Mil niinwali, «rgi by the crop* i of the fertility and quickly 1 and green-mai add Uma, pho serve labor, materials tion needed Cor m WFA points out, as less heavy demands on limited sup plies of nitrogen fertilisers. Legumes and grastessin rotation with cultivated crops serve a double pur pose by increasing the fertility of the soil, and ta ten the crop yield, and by protecting the soil from destructive erosion and less of moisture. Feed for livestock is made available by such cover crops a* alfalfa, kudiu, rod _ ' Farm Family Survey Made By FSA; Plans Are Formulated Recently, a study of all farm families in Alleghany county has been made by the local FSA su pervisors for the purpose of gath ering general information con cerning all farms in the county, to determine the needs and prob lems of these farm families, and to make a detailed plan of work for FSA families for 1945, in or der that ways and means for solving their problems might be worked out Working with the supervisors in formulating the new plan was the local FSA Com mittee composed of Carl Brown, Charlie Collins and Carl Hamp ton, R. E. Black, county agent and W. O. Hooper, soil conservation ist. ■■ ’■ Upon consulting the 1940 cen sus report the supervisors found that there were 1,090 farms av eraging 78.5 acres in Alleghany county. Of these, 1,442 are full or part land owners, leaving 245 tenant families in the county. The report further showed that in 1940, 1,469 of the total number of farm families had a gross in come of less than $1000. The group felt that the prob lem to receive first consideration should be that of helping these small farmers to increase their income. This they felt might be done by: 1. Increasing number of sheep raised.* 2. Increasing dairy cows 3. Increasing poultry flocks (in cluding turkeys). 4. Growing more feed crops— alfalfa and soybeans. 5. Increasing yield through use of nitrate of soda on com and small grain. 6. Increasing avreage of cash crops, green beans, potatoes and tobacco. Although the establishment of a milk route in the county has brought about an increase in dai ry cows, the group felt that the farmers might increase their profits through closer culling of dairy cows. The need for better dairy bulls was found to be es pecially acute in the following communities: Laurel Springs, Elk Creek, Ennice, Piney Creek and New River. It is hoped that one good sire may be placed in ...— ■ ' - each of these neighborhoods. It was/agreed that improved hous ing for cows and better sanitation would also be profitable. Because of the critical feed shortage, a special drive was made earlier among all FSA fam ilies urging that they use side dressing on their corn to bring about an increase in the yields. Fifty per cent of the FSA fami lies agreed to do this. This prac tice, as well ^s the use of side dressing for all small grains, would be profitable for every family. Pasture improvement and the use of silos were other means whereby feed cogts might be greatly reduced. The committee felt that the 110 FSA families in the county had made substantial progress through the use of the loan funds made for farm and home operating ex penses, and through ■ the educa tional program carried out by the local supervisors. One of the committee men stated that “The FSA program has been worth an awful lot to the county." Another added that, *T didn’t realise, until we# reviewed the 40 borrowers who have been on the program for three years or more, that a number of them would have gone broke had it not been for FSA.” It was agreed that a special ef fort would be made this year to reach a greater number of farm families in the county who might profit by the help which Farm Security can give, to direct them in the use of improved farm and home practices, to increase their income, and to improve general health and housing conditions. The 1945 wheat goal for the U. S., as announced by the WFA, is 1,900,000 acres larger than the crop of this year. WAR BONDS . . . buy them first—then buy what you need. ^Your War Bond Investment is Your Investment' In America * * * Wanted: To find owners of 3 pipes left here for repair. B & T Drug Co, PHONE 11 SPARTA, N. C. OFFICE SUPPLIES We carry 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 axe low. Letter & Bill Files, with Index CABBON PAPER OF ALL KINDS iter Carbon, 3 sheets, ' 10c; Box, $2.00, up Size, $2.00 —Legal Size, $2.50 TYPEWRITE* RIBBONS $1.00 each ADDING MACHINE BOLLS. 15e
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