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torney Statesvijte. Robert Landreth, of Washing "ton, Of- C., spent a few days last weeki with his mother, Mrs. Lau ra landreth at Scottville and his sister, Mrs. R. C. Halsey, here. . Mrs. E. E. Caudill has return gjd home, after a week’s visit /with her sister, Mrs. W. F. Hop Mrs. R. L. Doughton joined her husband in Washington, D. C., Friday, after an extended visit, here and at other points in North Carolina. J. H. Doughton, of Statesville, Spent the week end at his home here. He had as his guest, At ,7ohn McLaughlin, of pers. Leonard Roupe, who is visiting his sister, Mrs. Luther Halsey, is ill with pneumonia. Mrs-. Mack Hash, of Piney Creek, spent the week end with her sister and brother, Mrs. Lu ther Halsey and Leonard Roupe. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Absher have moved to their new apart ment over the Sparta Shoe Shop here. Miss Sally Bledsoe left Fri day for New York, after seyeral days’ visit with her brother, Duke Bledsoe and Mrs. Bledsoe, Ted Porter and Wade Choate made a business trip to Char lotte and other points, Monday. Cadet Dean Richardson, of Oak Ridge Military Institute, spent the week end with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Richard son. He had as his guest, Cadet Huffine, of Oak Ridge. Miss Lucille Mitchell, of ASTC, spent the week end here with her father, Rex Mitchell. Mrs. Edwin Duncan and daugh ter, Jane, spent Sunday after noon in Elkin with Mrs. W. R. Wellborn, Sr. R. A. Wagoner, Jr., of West Jefferson, spent the week end at his home here. Woodrow Richardson, assistant county agent of Watauga coun ty, spent the week end here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Richardson. Roy Crouse left Sunday for Raleigh, where he will spend several days before assuming his new duties with the State Col lege Extension service. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Duncan left Tuesday morning for New York City, where they will spend several days. They were aecom-. panied by Mf. and Mrs. Nichols, of Salisbury. Sam L. Porter and Ted Porter returned last week from a visit with relatives in Pennsylvania. R. E. Black, Frank" Osborne, Chap Hampton and Jim Graham attended the N. C. State Alumni meeting at Elkin, Tuesday night. Mrs. Robert Hughes and son, Bobby, returned to Baltimore, Md., by plane, Saturday, after spending several days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Mc Millan. Edwin Duncan, Jr., student at ASTC, Boone, spent the week end here. James Gambill and Clement Osborne have returned from a v$uil in Maryland, Pennsylvania anct Delaware. Miss Claribel Fender, of Chris tianshufg, Va., spent the week end here. She had as her guest, Miss Wilma Testerman, also of Christiansburg. A. B. Gentry, of Glade Valley, is slowly recovering from a stroke he suffered recently. ,Blan Sturgill, of Filer, Idaho,, has returned home, after a six weeks’ visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Sturgill, of Piney Creek. Mrs. Alma Moxley, of Mary land, is spending this week with her mother, Mrs. John Duncan. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fleetwood, of Concord, are spending a few days here with Mrs. Fleetwood’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Os borne. V Vi CARVING ms WAT TO SUCCESS . . . Starting at a hobby, wood carv-; Ing has become a serious bnsiness with Bin Burnham, 17, Enclno, Calif. Using live animals—he has three deer, a back and two fawns roaming all over his home—Bill has carved thousands of action pieces and re cently received an order from a motion picture tH't on scenic back* Sidden - Nixon Miss Mattie Nixon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rubin Nixon, of Jonesville, became the bride of Pfc. Oscar Sidden, son of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Sidden, of Sparta on December 29 at Sparta. Pfc. Sidden entered the army in 1941 and has been overseas for the past eighteen months. He is now spending a 90 day furlough at home, after which he will leave for overseas on March 20 since he re-enlisted for 18 months. One of the most important drives of all is the Infantile Pa ralysis Fund. Give liberally to his fine cause. Dance Community Building SPARTA, N. C. Thursday Night, Feb. 14 9-1 O’CLOCK Music By Wilmer Hester’s Orchestra Scrip: *1.00 per person Everybody Invited! SEMI-FORMAL DANCE . Tickets Now On Sale — at — B. & T. DRUG STORE SMITHEY’S STORE KAY’S 5 and 10c STORE Popcorn Affords Cash On The Side As the farmer sweats out the winter period of bad weather and income taxes and begins to round out his 1946 crop program, pop corn has popped up as a pros pective source of “cash on the s.u from odd soots of land, ac cording to Assistant County Agent V. A. Huneycutt, of Albe marle. Many Stanly county farmers have been growing “several” acres of popcorn during the past two years in meeting contract or ders from a large seed company, Huneycutt reports, indicating that contracts have been renew ed this year and tabbing the crop as a “paying enterprise.” -Behind Your Bonds Lies the Mi^ht of America MOUNTAINS OF ORE Three Minnesota iron ranges pro duce 40 million tons of ore valued at $40,000,000 annually. Over 15,000 persons free the ore from virgin hills and 10,000 more transport it. Millions of tons of low grade and mixed ores remain to add wealth to the Nation, as speedily as it can be mined and processed. They consti tute concrete resources behind your Bonds, U. S. Treasury Department -Behind Your Bonds lies the Might of America RANGES OF TIMBER Umber, dominant item in Oregon's industrial life tor decades, will con tribute postwar wealth to the nation. Its 40,000 workers earn 56 million dollars a year, producing timber **1-, ued at 177 millions. Some of the world's largest sawmills operate at Burns, Bend and Klamath Palls. PiMr inH furniture nils ud resources to make your Bonds the world's best Investment V, S. Trmnry Dfrimtat 111*.,. ■') Miss Brooks, Mr. Gambill Are Wed Vows Spoken In Pastorium Of First Baptist Church In Elkin Miss Iris Kathleen Brooks, at tractive daughter 'of Mrs. Mabel T. Brooks and the late R. A. Brooks, of Glade Valley, became the bride of Tam Smith Gam bill, of Independence, in a quiet but impressive ceremony in the study of the pastorium of the First Baptist church of Elkin on January 19. The Rev. Howard J. Ford, pas tor, officiated, using the double ring ceremony. The couple were attended by James Gambill, of Sparta, and Miss Fairy Bedwell, of Indepen dence, Va. For her nuptials, the bride chose a suit of powder blue wool with black accessories. At her shoulder she placed a corsage of red rosebuds. Mrs. Gambill is a graduate of Glade Valley high school with the class of ’42. She attended CITED FOR HONESTY Roy L. Edwards, S-2C, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Edwards, of Mobeetie, Texas, and grandson of J. R. Edwards, of Sparta, Route 2, recently ra ted a front page in the news paper published by the Naval Barracks at Puget Sound Na _ry Yard, Bremerton, Wash. Young Edwards, who attend ed school at Briscoe, had found a billfold containing $500 in cash, returned it to the worried owner and re fused a $10 reward. The pic ture shows Cmdr. M. H. Twit chell, USN, senior chaplain, congratulating him for his Geyer’s Business College in Charlotte and for sometime was employed by the Glenn L. Mar tin Company in Baltimore, Md., as a clerical worker. Mr. Oambill is a graduate of Finey Creek high school with „mss pf 42. He has made his home wiih his father, where he has been engaged in farming. The young couple will make their home in Sparta" where Mr. Gambill runs a dairy farm. Yields on North Carolina’s 80, 000 acres of sweet potatoes aver aged between 97 ^ng. 115 bushels per acre in 1945' but quality was described as “poor” by Extension Service horticulturists. Columbus County farmers can increase cash returns form straw berries by $170,000 this year sim ply by obeying the rules of spac ing and pruning, according to J. Y. Lassiter, horticulturist of the State College Extension Service. Green winter blankets for fields of the southeast are likely to de pend upon precision-timed dust ing of field in ,the far northwest ] because most of the good seed comes from the latter section. Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Fender vis ited Mrs. Oscar Richardson, Sun day. Mis. Richardson is still con fined to her bed. ^ OH, GRACE, SOME or | THE BEST b^P&AHJS IU 7H£ PAPER- Topaz • LET^S GO I'LL MEtzT ) Vo:' AT ( r TW£ cr>£dEfc/ /MR. mercmamt WAS IT YOUR AD SHE o REAOi i j r pays to buy the best... YOU CAN ALWAYS BE ASSURED THAT YOU ARE BUYING THE BEST QUALITY WHEN YOU BUY FROM FARMER’S HARDWARE AND IMPLEMENT COMPANY, LONG RECOGNIZED AS A FRIEND OF THE PEOPLE OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY. It might cost a little more right now, but it’s cheaper in the long run. . . Farmer’s Hdw. & Impl. Co. SPARTA, N. C. With the return of more cars to the road, we are glad to Welcome back old customers and to assure them of the same fine services they have always enjoyed ... Take Care of Your Car! HAVE IT CHECKED REGULARLY AT THIS STATION BY ONE OF OUR ATTENDANTS “Service” is ojir motto AND WE’RE ALWAYS READY TO SERVE YOU1: : !**’? : noihsK luo ic Come to the Se«vi< Station-tor SheU <Ja,s and Oil ' : :uoo<i seoiodi Kelly-Springfie^ •&*, Tribes STEAM RECAftPiNC* SERVICE > oi flulsv ?
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