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Mrs. Floyd Crouse and Mrs.
Edwin Duncan were in Wytheville
one day this week.
Messrs. J. R. and C. B. Taylor
were in Charleston, S. C., this
week visiting Mrs. J. K. Taylor
J who underwent an operation in
the hospital there.
Mr. S. C. Richardson, who has
been in the Elkin hospital for
sometime, is expected to return
to his home this week. His con
dition is reported to be somewhat
better.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kennedy
and children, Jamie and Eleanor,
recently moved- from Kennett
Square, Pa., to Piney Creek where
they have purchased the farm
formerly owned by W. T. Land
reth.
Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Osborne had
as their guests for dinner Sunday
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hoppers,
I Dewey and Hassell Hoppers, Mrs.
Rosa Hoppers, W. T. Rector and
Jean Hoppers.
Those recently visiting Mr. J.
A. Fender and Mr. and Mrs. Will
J. Pugh, of Erwin, Tenn., were
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hoppers, Has
sell and Dewey Hoppers, Jean
Hoppers and Jack Reeves.
Mrs. Bert R. Edwards returned
home from Wilkesboro hospital
Saturday after having undergone
an operation, there. Those who
visited her were Mr. and Mrs.
D. R. Crouse, Mr. and Mrs. Ber
tie R. Crouse, Mrs. Joe Sparks,
Mrs. Jess Todd, Mrs. Coy Wolfe,
Mrs. George Sparks and children.
Jesse G. Cox has returned from
Germany and has received his
discharge from the army.
Mrs. Edwin Duncan and daugh
ter, Jane, have returned after
spending the week end in Green
ville, S. C.
Mrs. Roy Burgiss and Mrs.
Reeves spent Tuesday in Win
ston-Salem.
Mr. Staten Mclver, of North
Wilkesboro, was a business visi
tor here, Tuesday.
Miss Mable Haddock returned
to her home in Hollywood, Cali
fornia, Tuesday after spending
sometime with her sister, Mrs.
Wade Choate. She was accom
panied to Charlotte, Tuesday by
Messrs. Wade Choate and Amos
Wagoner.
Sunday dinner guests of Elder
and Mrs. C. B. Kilby were Elder
S. P. Roberts, of Independence,
Va.; Elder A. L. Presnell, Fayett
Hackler, Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Reeves, Mr. and Mrs. Lon Mac
Reeves, Mr. and Mrs. Luther
Smith and son, Glenn and family.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Osborne re
turned home Sunday from a few
days visit with relatives at Siloam.
Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Brinegar
visited Mr. and Mrs. Orrin Brine
gar Saturday.
Mrs. M. A. Goodman has re
turned from Wilkes hospital,
where she has been receiving
treatment.
Miss Ruby Woodruff was in
town, Saturday.
Elder E. A. Long is in the Bap
tist hospital at Winston-Salem.
Mrs. Eleanor Curtis and child
ren, of near Lenoir, were guests
of her sister, Mrs. Walter John
son and Mr. Johnson, Sunday.
Miss Margaret Fuller, of
Raleigh, was a visitor here Fri
day.
Dr. and Mrs. N. D. Fox and
sons visited at Union Grove, Sun
day.
Roy al-Easter
Vows Are Spoken
Miss Lois Easter, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Easter, of Win
ston-Salem, became the bride of
Raymond Royal, son of Mr. and
Mrs. George Royal, of Roaring
Gap, on - Saturday, January 25,
at the First Baptist church, Win
ston-Salem, with Dr. Ralph Her
ring officiating.
Immediately after the cere
mony, a reception was held at the
home of the bride.
Mrs. Royal is a graduate of
Hanes high school and was em
ployed by Dr. H. L. Keel and Dr.
Jackson.
Mr. Royal attended Sparta high
school and is now stationed at
Greensboro with the U. S. Army
Air Force.
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Murphy-Antlers
Vows Are Spoken
Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Murphy, of
Ennice, announce the marriage of
their daughter, Jeanette, to Wes
ley Anders, of Hanes, on Decem
ber 28.
Mrs. Anders is a graduate of
Sparta high school and of Draugh
on’s Business college, of Winston
Salem. At present she is a mem
ber of the faculty of the Glendale
consolidated school of near Ga
lax.
Mr. Anders, son of Rev. and
Mrs. Coy Anders, is now employ
ed in Hanes where he and Mrs.
Anders plan to make their home.
Mrs. Choate Is
Hostess To Group
The January meeting of the
Women’s Missionary Society of
the Sparta Methodist church was
held at the home of Mrs. B. O.
Choate.
Mrs. Inskeep led the devotional
exercises, following which there
was an open discussion of plans
for the coming year.
The special feature of the meet
ing was a handkerchief shower
in honor of Mrs. Granville Lyles,
who is leaving Sparta to make
her home in Asheville.
Much regret was expressed at
losing Mrs. Lyles, who has been
an active and inspiring member
of the society during her stay in
the community.
Mrs. Anderson
To Speak At Club
The Sparta Woman’s Club will
hold its meeting Thursday, Feb
ruary 6, at which time Mrs. Fd
M. Anderson will be guest speak
er.
The meeting will be held at the
community building and will be
gin at 3:30, Mrs. R. Floyd Crouse,
president, stated.
Hostesses for the afternoon will
be Mrs. Ralph Cheek. Mrs. F. G.
Walker. Mrs. Hugh Choate, Mrs.
N. D. Fox and Mrs. Glenn Rich
ardson.
All members are urged to be
present at this meeting.
WMU Conference
To Be Held Feb. 8
The Leadership Conference of|
the Alleghany Associational W.
M. U. will be held at the Sparta'
Baptist church Saturday, Febru
ary 8 at two o’clock, Mrs. R. E.1
Richardson, associational super
intendent, announced this week.
All associational officers and
chairmen and local W. M. U. lead
ers in all the churches are urged
to be present. All other persons
interested in the work of the W.
M. U. are invited to attend.
BIRTHS ANNOUNCED
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hodges an
nounce the arrival of a seven
pound daughter on December 25.
This is Mr. and Mrs. Hodges’
tenth child. They have five girls
and five boys.
Mr. and Mrs. Orrin Brinegar
are the proud parents of a daugh
ter, Mary Lee, born on January
20.
Mr. and Mrs. O. M. Caudill an
nounce the birth of a daughter,
Patricia Maxine, on January 19.
The annual State Veterinary
Conference was held January
28 to 30 at State College.
RECENT BRIDE
Mrs. Wesley Anders, who
was before her marriage De
cember 28, the former Miss
Jeanette Murphy, of Enmce.
WILDLIFE BILL IS
BEFORE LEGISLATURE
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Senator Weathers of Cleveland
would allow the manufacture and
sale of fireworks out of the state
but written permission would
have to be obtained from county
commissioners for their sale, in
stead of sheriffs and chiefs of po
lice as the original bill provided.
Fireworks still could be ex
hibited at fairs and carnivals un
der the supervision of “an expert”
who would obtain a permit from
the county commissioners. The
measure would not ban the use
of dynamite for industrial pur
noses or shooting of cartridges or
shells. It merely relates to the
shooting of pyrotechnics.
Transport Legislation
The Assembly received a spe
cial commission report recom
mending the rewriting of laws
regulating the truck transporta
tion industry. The commission,
authorized by the 1945 Legisla
ture, made a special study of the
State’s truck laws. The study re
sulted from a controversy caused
by a request of nonfranchise car
riers that they be granted fran
chises en masse under terms of
the so-called “grandfather
clause.” That request was op
posed by truckers operating un
der terms of the franchise per
mits.
The nonfranchisg operators,
numbering close • to 2,000, would
be granted certificates by the
State Utilities commission on the
basis of operations they were per
forming January 1, 1945, and
since.
Firm Grams
Legislation providing ; for a
corps of census-takers in every
county to handle North Caro
lina's annual farm census was in
troduced in the General Assembly
Tuesday.
County commissioners would
have responsibility for appoint
ing and paying a county farm
census supervisor and a census
taker in every township. The
counties would receive ten cents
per abstract from a $35,000 State
fund to partially reimburse them.
When farmers list taxes every
year, they provide the detailed
information on the past year’s
operations—the acreage devoted
to various crops, timber acreage,
idle land, number and types of
livestock and other information.
No crop price information is in
cluded.
The census has been under the
supervision of the tax assessors
and tax listers. Agriculture offi
cials indicate that the legislation
was suggested by county boards,
which were willing to take re
sponsibility for the census if they
Motorists,
Keep Your Car
in good condition
by letting us
service it
Call on our Blacksmith
WHILE 1ST TOWN
on TUESDAY and FRIDAY
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Sparta S. Carolina
WHO’S TAKING WHOM FOR A WALK? Show dogs, who do not
have the liberty to romp on their own like the mutts of many ances
tors, must be exercised under supervision. Supervisor in this case is
John Mahomed, 4, who has a man-size job handling a pair of king
size canines in Melbourne.
could handle it in their own way
and lift the burden off the tax
assessor at such a busy period.
Veterans, Unemployment
Mrs. Norton Pearl, national
president of the Ladies’ Auxil
iary of the American Legion,
spoke briefly before both houses
Tuesday in support of veterans’
rehabilitation legislation.
Three bills of fireworks had
been previously introduced in the
Senate: One by Senator Weath
ers providing for the State-wide
ban on “sale, transportation, pur
chase, sale, possession and adver
tisement of pyrotechnics;” a sec
ond by Senator Roper of Lincoln
outlawing everything, including
manufacture for out-of-state
sales; and a third by Senator
George Penny of Guilford, leav
ing the matter in the hands of
the county commissioners.
The subcommittee, composed of
those three and Senator Lennon
of New Hanover and Senator
Chaffin of Harnett, unanimously
approved Weather’s bill, amend
ing it slightly.
Expansion of the unemploy
ment compensation law of North
Carolina to include maritime
workers operating from offices
in the State was provided for in
amendments submitted to the
Senate by the Unemployment
Compensation commission.
Timely Hints
By RUTH CURRENT
Holiday Records: To make next
Christmas easier, save and file
away this year’s list of gifts, and
add to it any ideas you may want
to remember, suggest extension
specialists in the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture. For ex
ample, keep a record of any mag
azine subscriptions sent this year
and the date when they expire.
Jot down ideas for homemade
gifts that may be useful next year,
and keep a record of types of
wrappings or seals which you
found especially useful or attrac
tive this year. Before putting
away Christmas cards, bring your
address book up to date with new
or changed addresses.
Instead of discarding Christmas
cards, put them into a scrap book
which the youngsters of the fam
ily can enjoy the year around, or
save them for a shut-in day and
let the children paste them in the
book.
Many a new year’s landscape
,;Xa
V. Wnt it-SAFI-_
*Rrcc»i» PREPARATIONS
is blemished by old Christmas
trees dumped forlornly in back
yards. Foresters of the U. S. D.
A. suggest that a few minutes’
work with a sharp hatchet can
convert the old tree to a neat
bundle of kindling for winter
hearth fires. Or the tree can be
set' into the ground outdoors as
a winter shelter and feeding cen
ter for birds. Birds will enjoy bits
of suet, raisins and bread crusts
attached to the branches and will
repay the kindness next spring
by helping to destroy insect pests
and weed seeds around the
grounds and gardens.
Oranges and grapfruit are the
buys in fresh fruit this winter.
Prices of both are lower than in
many years, according to U.S.D.
A. marketing specialists. Both the
orange and grapefruit crops for
the 1946-47 season promise to be
the largest on record. The orange
crop is 20 percent larger than
last year and 53 percent above
average.
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and barn and other build
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grazing land.
Write or see
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Sparta, North Carolina
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Where To Supply His Needs
H Farming Tools
Plow points, repairs and parts he needs before starting his
program of Spring Work.
a Builders Supplies
Now is the time to repair many of those buildings. There
is still a shortage in many materials, but if what you need
is available we will get it for you.
a Hardware
, This store carries a complete line of hardware of alt kinds,
including builders hardware.
There are still many items not available, but supplies are
Increasing.
■ Electrical Equipment
From the small appliances to major equipment including
pumps. These supplies are also becoming mote and more
plentiful.
We Will Be Open Each Wednesday Afternoon
Farmers Hdw. & Imp!.,
SPARTA
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