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At Home On The
Farm With
The City Cousin
Fve been fooled before, but
never like this!
No telling how long I would
have labored under false im
pressions about farming in North
Carqlina and in general if I hadn’t
run across that little book.
It’s a brilliantly conceived
piece of work'ffi'af lo^ks lltcfe one
of those vestpocket dictionaries
you see advertised. Although it
does contain a definition here
and there, it is really the 1947
Handbook lor Agricultural Work
ers prepared by the State College
Extension Service, and, to stamp
out. a new idiom, there is more
there than first met the eye ol
this City Cousin when he plank
ed down a dollar for his copy.
Did I hear you say “Informa
tion, Please?” Well, you’ve got
the right number! You can quit
trying to find out what to plant
in your “Peace Garden” between
March 1 and 15, and if you still
want to know what to do for
chickens that are drooping from
Aspergillosis, Bronchitis, and or
Larynogotracheitis—well, Fve got
the dope right here in my little
manual that tells me every—
thing but the weather forecast
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THE
Alleghany News
PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS
SPARTA, N. CAROLINA
LETTERHEADS
ENVELOPES
STATEMENTS
RULE FORMS
& BOOKLETS
SPARTAN THEATRE
FRIDAY
(Last Times Today)
Jack CARSON
Ann SHERIDAN
Dennis MORGAN
One More
Tomorrow
SATURDAY
(Matinee 1:15 P. M.)
WILD BILL ELLIOTT
Sun Valley
Cyclone
Also
First Chapter of
THE CRIMSON GHOST
MONDAY & TUESDAY
Bing Crosby in
OF. ST. MARTS
With INGRID BERGMAN
WEDNESDAY ONLY (Bargain Day)
ALLAN LANE in GAY BLADES
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY
IT’S ALIVE WITH LAUGHTER
DANNY KAYE
THE KID FROM BROOKLYN
(In Technicolor)
Dine & Dance
Saturday Night
At The Community Bldg.
Supper 7:30
DANCE FOLLOWS
Music By Clif Evans
and His Band
Public Cordially Invited
Alleghany Wildlife Club
VETS WIN "LAND AWARDS” ... Olney Rudd, World War U veteran,
ia pictured as he draw* the first winner In the Ride Lake homestead
awards made by the U. S. to $5 lucky veterans at Klamath Falls, Ore.
Nelson Reed, left, chairman of the homestead examining board. Is
shown turning the crank on the "fish bowl.” The farms are valued
from $20,000 to $30,000. There were L305 names in the bowl when the
drawing began.
Timely Hints
By Verna Stanton
Assistant State Agent
Wintertime is sewing time £or
many families in cities, as well
as on farms. The workman-like
home sewer, whose machine
whirls smoothly, keeps an oil can
handy and uses it after each day’s
work or after eight or ten hours
of use, say household equipment
specialists of the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture.
For oiling, use household ma
chine oil, the kind that is pack
aged by gasoline companies or
manufacturers of sewing ma
chines. Squirt a drop in each oil
hole and each bearing—that is,
wherever one surface rubs against
another or turns within another.
Don’t forget to oil any little block
of felt or ball of wool that feeds
oil to the shuttle race. If there
is no felt or wool, wipe a thin
film of oil on the race with a
cloth on your finger. But never
oil the tensions of the machine.
A drop of oil is plenty for more
than one reason. Excess oil runs
off and is wasted, and excess oil
not wiped off collects dust. Too
much oil on the shuttle race or
needle can cause stitches to skip.
When oiling is finished, run the
machine a minute or two to work
the oil into bearings,
,|t is al£o routine good care to
slide out" the ‘ needle' "plate oc
casionally and blow away any
lint under it, or to remove the
lint with a dry brush. This is one
of the worst lint-catching places
on the machine, and when lint
and dirt pack down, cleaning be
comes hard work.
When not in use, keep the sew
ing machine covered to protect it
from dust. Lettii^ the presser
foot down on a scrap of cloth
helps the tension to stay at prop
er adjustment and also takes up
any excess oil that may run down
tor next Easter Sunday!
Little did I suspicion before
reading this "Farmer’ll Best—
SelleiT—non—fictibn that is,
sub—that my Country Cousin
must be something of a chemist,
biologist, engineer, and all
round Medicine Man rolled into
one. (This presupposes, natcherly,
that he is already an astrologer,
a lawyer, and a clairvoyant)
"Things Every Successful Far
mer Should Know” might well
be the title of this five-foot
shelf of reference books boiled to
a neat 151 pages of data pertinent
to this state. (I don’t suppose it
would take an ounce more of
quicklime to whitewash a shed
in Maryland than it would down
here—depending upon how dirty
the shed was—but you get the
idea.)
Should the farmer care to know
how many acres a machine will
cover, he can save himself a lot
of time and gasoline by using the
formula of page- 21. No more
jumping on the thing and runn
ing around the farm like mad
with a stop watch in one hand
and the accelerator in the other.
Just look on'page 21.
Besides learning what Tar Heel
farmers should know about forty
seven different field crops that
thrives here, you’d be amazed at
what I could do on the farm with
the electricity consumed in a
city apartment in one month.
As I dragged out my January
light bill and pressed my new
Handbook into use, I was shock
ed. I had already been shocked by
the light bill, but anyway this
was a pretty strong anti-climax.
I could have baled three tens
of hay, churned a ton of butter,
shelled twenty-five bushels oi
corn, atwed two cords of wood
threshed three hundred pound:
of grain, and milked forty-nine
and a half cows. This would have
left me with enough KiBowatt
hours to give myself a good sue
tan and hatch out two and two
tenths baby chicks.
What about that half a cow
remains un-nulkcd?
the bar. If the machine is left
idle for a considerable time, oc
casional oiling keeps the oil in
the machine from drying and be
coming gummy.
Almost any well-made sewing
machine can be made to run easily
and sew perfectly. Parts may
need replacing in time, but sew
ing machines last two or three
generations if periodically oiled,
cleaned and adjusted. Even a
misused machine often can be put
into good working order again.
GAMBILL TO ADD
GUERNSEYS TO HERD
Glenn Harris and Arthur Gam
bill purchased six head of re
gistered guernsey cattle last week,
it was learned here. These cattle
will be added to Mr. Gambill’s
dairy herd here in Alleghany
county.
* CARD OF THANKS
We wish to extend, thanks to
the many friends and neighbors
for their kindness during our
bereavement; also for the beauti
ful floral tributes.
F. J. and Mallie Weaver
Directory Of The
Church Services
SPARTA BAPTIST CHURCH
7- Rev. F. G. Walker, Pastor
N. D. FOx. Supt
Sunday School each Sunday, 10.
Church service each Sunday,
11:00.
Young Peoples’ Meeting
7:15 each Sunday Evening
Evening Worship Service 8 p. m.
MISSIONARY BAPTIST
CHURCI”
10*0 n.
Church Services:
Mt Carmel, Fim Suriday, HUB
a. m.
Bell view, Second Sunday, 11*0
A m.
Liberty. Third Sunday, 11.’00
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Chestnut Grove, Fourth Sunday,
11*0 a. m.
NEW HOPS
Rev. F. G. Walker, poster
Sunday School, 1:30 p. m.
Preaching service, 1st and 3rd.
Sundays at 2:30 p. m.
SPARTA MRTBOD1ST CHURCH
Rev. C. R. Allison, Minister
Sunday School each Sun. at 10
Oharles R. Roe. Supt
LOOK
AROUND
In the Ads
On These
PAGES and
SAVE
MONEY
p. m.
Piney Creek, 2nd. Sunday at 11:15
a. m. 4th Sunday at 3 p. m.
Walnut Branch, 3rd. Sunday at
3 p. m.
Cox’s Chapel, 1st. Sunday at 8
p. i». 4th. Sunday at 11:15 a.m.
Potato Creek, 2nd. Sunday at 3
p. m. 4th. Sunday at 10 a. m.
SPARTA PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
E. W. l'nompson, Minister
Church service 2nd’ AAth Suh. 11
Glade Valley, 1st Sun. 11 & 7:15
Glade Valley, 3rd Sun. 11 & 7:15
Rocky Ridge, 2nd Sun. at 3 P. M.
PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH
Eld. C. B. Kilby • Eltf A. L.
Presnell, Pastors
Church service 3rd Sat at 2 p. m
and Sun. at 11 a. m. in each
month.
WOODRUFF PRIMITIVE
BAPTIST CHURCH
Elder Charlie Hall
Church services each second Sat
urday and Sunday, 11:00 a. m.
REG. BAPTIST CHURCHES
Little River Ass’n
Big Springs, 2nd. Sat. and Sun.
Double Spring, 1st Sat. and Sim.
landmark, 4th Sat. A Sun.
Laurel Glen, 1st Sat. and Sun.
Mountain View, 3rd Sat. and Sun.
Mt. Arat, 4th Sat. and Sun.
Mt. Carmel, 3rd Sat. and Sun.
Mt. Olivet, 1st Sat. and Sun.
New Bethel, 3rd Sat. and Sun.
New Salem, 2nd Sat. and Sun.
Pleasant Home. 3rd Sat. and Sun.
Prather’s Creek, 2na Sat. & Sun.
Roaring Gap, 1st Sat. and Sun.
Saddle Mountain, 4th Sat. & Sun.
South Fork, 4th Sat. & Sun.
UNION BAPTIST CHURCHES
Cherry Lane, 4th Sat. and Sun.
‘Glade Creek, 1st SOt. and Sun.
Liberty, 2nd Sat. and Sun.
Mount Union, 1st Sat. and Sun.
Pleasant Grove, 3rd Sat. and Sun.
Saddle Mt., 3rd Sat.- and Sun.
Whitehead. 2nd Sat. and Sun.
Welcome Home 4th Sat. and Sun.
Pleasant Home, 2nd Sat and Sun.
Meadow Creek, 1st Sat and Sun.
LAUREL SPRINGS
BAPTIST CHURCH
Van Miller, Supt
Sunday School each Sunday al
10 A. M.
Church’ service 1st Sat. night be
fore 3rd Sun morn. 8:00 p. m.; 1st
Sun. night 8:00 p. m.; 3rd Sun.
morning, 11:00 a. m. Rev. F. G.
Walker.
OSBORNE MEMORIAL
BAPTIST CHURCH
Turkey Knob
Rev. E. B. Barton, Minister
Church service 1st Bat nigh:
8:00 p. m. and' Sunday, 11:08 a
m. and 3rd Sat night, 8:00 p.m.
ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE
Hiving qualified - as adminis
trator of Martin Evans, deceased,
I hereby notify all persons hav
ing claims against the estate to
file the same within twelve
months from date of this notice
oi this notice will be plead in
bar of payment
All persons indebted to said
estate will please make immediate
payment.
This 20th day of January, 1947.
. • LEFT EDWARDS,
Administrator of
Martin Evans, Deceased.
1-23-Otp.
NOTICE OP SALE OF LAND
As commissioner appointed by
the Clerk of the Superior Court
in special proceedings entitled
Harold Adams vs. Ida Adams, et
al, I will offer for sale at Pub
lic Auction at the Court House
door in Sparta, North Carolina,
on the 22nd day of February,
1947, at 10:00 A. M. for cash the
following described land:
FIRST TRACT: BEGINNING
at a sarvis (old corner) running
South 2% poles to a white oak;
thence N. 81* E. 7 poles to a
White Oak; then N. 60* E. 3 poles
to a stake in old line; then East
with old line 26 poles to a small
chestnut; then N. 13° E. 6 poles
to a chestnut; then N. 25° W. 9
poles to a white oak; then N. 70°
N. 32% poles to a stake in I. M.
Higgins line; thenca South with
old line 25% poles to the be
ginning. Containing 4 acres, and
116 poles, mofe or less.
SECOND TRACT: BEGINNING
at a stake one rod East of branch,
I: M. Higgins line; running South
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RATES
Minimum of 35c per issue of
not more than 35 words. For
each additional word over 35,
lVic per word.
All “keyed” classified ads
are minimum of 50c.
Memorials and Obituaries,
$1.50 minimum.
Terms: Cash.
Everybody
Reads The
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TO BUY — TO SELL
TO BENT — TO FIND
NEEDED—Man to take over
established business distributing
medicines, vitamins, home reme
dies, insecticides, disinfectants,
DDT, animal foods, tonic, and
food products in south central and
northwest Ashe county. Home
medication, buying at home, in
creases demand. Good profits.
Write Rawleigh's, Dept. NCB-213
187, Richmond, Va. 2-20-ltc
FOR SALE—15 acres of fertile
land, 3 acres cleared and set in
grass, rest in salable timber and
fire wood; watered by spring and
creek, adjoining Kelly Williams
and Wilmer Woodruff, 2 miles
from Stratford school, store and
post office; supplied by RFD No.
3 from Sparta, school bus trans
portation; a lovely place for a
secluded home or hunting lodge.
For price see Mrs. C. M. San
ders, Stratford. 2-20-ltc
with fence and I. M. Higgins line
about 8 poles to a stake and cor
ner in said Higgins line; then S.
60 W. with fence and I. M. Hig
gins line 46 poles to a stake hear
a locust, Higgins corner; then S.
60 W. with Higgins line to A. F.
Adams corner; thence an East
course with Adams line about
28% poles to a stake in Adams
line, Rosa P. Toliver corner; then
a North course with the fence to
the spring branch and a white
oak; then down said branch to the
beginning. So as to include with
on both sides of the fence. Con
taining 10 acres, more or less.
THIRD TRACT: BEGINNING
at a Spanish oak, Rosa P. Toliver
and I. M. Higgins agreed corner;
running a South West course with
Rosa P. Toliver arid*I. fo Hig
glM jjn^l aplss .ttjjLflKfcJbsa.
a Northeast course 6% poles to a
rock; then Southeast course 6
poles to the beginning.
This 23rd day of January, 1947.
" R. F. CROUSE,
Commissioner.
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FOR SALE — Damp-proofing
for stucco, concrete or cinder
block houses, concrete or brick
basements. Transparent, does not
change original colors. Also have
the best grade asphalt roof coat
uig for metal or rubber roofs.
Phone 107-R or write S. B. Simp
son, agent, P. O. Box 11, Galax.
2-13-2tp
WANTED: RADIOS TO RE
PAIR. Equipped to give you the
best of service. Visit the Firestone
Store, Miles-Waddell-Thompson.
l-16-6tc
BABY CHICKS — Get New
Price List and Save Money.
WORTHWHILE CHICKS, 101 W.
North Ave., Baltimore 1, Md.
2-6-15tp
WANTED—RADIOS to repair, all
makes. We have a complete stock
of parts to fit any make o’- mo
del. We will do your work while
you wait. W. L. Porter & Co.,
Furniture. Galax. Va. tf-a
FOR SALE — Genuine Engraved
Calling Carae. 100 cards and plate,
only $1.95. Alleghany News, tf
FOR SALE—1940 Plymouth in
good condition. Good tires and
radio. Okey Sheets, Laurel
Springs, N. C. 2-20-ltp
LOOKING FOR THAT
SILVER LINING?
You’ll find it for sure with the
U. S. Army. At no expense, you’ll
get the finest medical and dental
care, excellent quarters, sports,
recreation, and travel opportuni
ties. You’ll get new higher pay
rated (plus 29% for overseas
service). Leant';* .profession and
save while you earn. Get full dfe
cruiting Stationer" O. HldgT^
noir, N. C. 2-20-ltc
SEE US FOR HAULING AND
TRUCKING. We haul anything,
anywhere. Call Delp Hardware.
2-20-2tp
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Sparta Business Directory
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Sparta, N. C.
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Reins-Sturdivant
Funeral Home
Licensed Embalmen and
funeral Directors
Phone 85
SPARTA, N. C.
Boilers, B»w Mills, Wood Work
I inf and Rood Building Machinery,
, WeU Drilling Machinery. Gasoline
Engines, etc. R. P. Johnson,
Wytheville, Va.
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