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• ADVERTISE in The Skyland Post, the only news paper that’s printed M in Ashe county, and the newspaper with by far the best sub acription list of any »■»«■■■ paper circulated in the county. VOLUME V, NUMBER 16 PARKER FOUND NOT GUILTY OF MURDER IN FIRST DEGREE Eight Sentenced to Roads as Judge Pless Disposes of Court Docket Saturday at Noon The important case from a standpoint of interest tried in the April terfn of court, which adjourned Saturday s at noon, was that of Otis Parker, charged with murder in the first degree in the death of Eli John son, who was shot from ambush in the Green Valley section last Septem ber. After several hours deliberation, the jury, picked from a special venire of fifty men, brought in a verdict of not guilty. Ira T. Johnston, attorney for Par ker, made an earnest and stiring plea to the jury in behalf of the life of his client. Both W. B. Austin, on the side of the prosecution, and Solicitor Gwyn, made powerful pleas, but the concensus of poinion was to the effect that the actual facts in the case did not warrant conviction. The courtroom was crowded during the trial and the Judge was forced to resort to locked doors while giving his clear and concise charge to the jury. This is said to be the first murder trial Attorney Johnston has had in his career in which he represented the defendant without aid of any other lawyer. The court was scheduled to last two weeks, but the docket was clear ed by Saturday of the first week. This was due in part to the efficiency of the court officials, and in a greater part, perhaps, to the fact .that under a. new ruling, defendants may plead guilty to a misdemeanor and waive trial by jury and let the presiding jurist pass sentence. Almost all the cases were tried by this method and were, therefore) much more quickly disposed of. Eight men were sentenced to work on the roads: George Wood, Estel Blevins, Brad and Roy Mayberry, Elijah and Roe Stout, Joe Parsons, and Elmer Ham. John Reeves, of the Nathans Creek community, served as foreman of the grand jury and turned in a report that the county home and prison camp were in excellent condition; that the jail was in good condition, and that the courthouse needs work done on the roof as jt^leaks. LANSING COMMENCEMENT OPENS WITH PROGRAMS ON SATURDAY NIGHT Judge Johnson J. Hayes to Be Guest Speaker for the Baccalaureate Address April 27 The Lansing High School com mencement will begin Saturday night, April 20, with the graded program which will consist of two playlets— the first, an operetta, “The Magic Wood”, presented by the grades from one to five; the second, “Twilight Minstrels”, presented by the sixth and seventh grades. The feature of the commencement will come .on the closing night when Judge Johnson J. Hayes, of Greens boro, will deliver the Baccalaureate Address to the graduating class. These exercises will be staged Thurs day night, April 25, and the high school play, “Oh! Professor”, will be given Friday night, the 26th. The public is cordially invited to attend all of these programs. WORKERS START GRAVELING HIGHWAY NUMBER SIXTEEN Creek Gravel Will Be Placed on Newly Constructed Grade on Jefferson Road Work of placing creek gravel on the newly constructed grade of five miles of the Millers Creek-Jefferson road will begin in a few days, it was learned from ' a representative of Nello Teer, who holds contract for grading and gaveling the road. .Grading was completed several weeks ago but it was necessary to al low the new grade to settle before the gravel surface is put on. After the gravel surface thoroughly settles the road will be given a crushed stone and oil treatment surface similar to other highways in this part of the state. —The Journal-Patriot. In buying oil*alone auto owners in the United States are mulcted annually through short age. IB I I ImI B I Isl II . I I I B I- SNOW, SLEET, AND FREEZING WINDS DAMAGE ASHE CROPS Reports from Western States Are That Mercury Dropped Below Zero in Places Snow, sleet, and a driving wind which amounted almost to a hurri cane swept through the county dur ing the week end and did more damage to the crops than has yet been done. Wheat is thought to be damaged con siderably in many places, and the early blooming fruit trees looked as if they had had scalding water poured on them Wednesday morning when the wind finally subsided. Many car raidators were caught without anti freeze in them and were frozen Sun day night. Reports from the Western states are that they suffered severe freezing and that in many places the ther mometer dropped to twenty below zero. LOCAL SCHOOL TO GIVE 6016 EVENT Fine Array of Bouts to Be Presented at Local Gymnasium Friday • Night, April 19 The West Jefferson High School will present its last card of boxing contests for the current school year at the local gymnasium Friday night, April 19. The usual admission prices of 25, 35, and 50 cents will be charged. The public is cordially invited to attend this fine array of fights. The scheduled card is full of interest and promises a good night of entertain ment and interest. Almost all the boxers have been seen on the canvas before ad already have an admiring public. The bouts as arraged are as fol lows : Garnet Clark, 145, Lansing, vs. Robert K. O. Stamper, 145, Glade Springs. Herbert Jones, 155, West Jefferson, vs. Bo Griggs, 160, Jefferson. Robert Grayson, 125, West Jeffer son, vs. Grant Tomlinson, 132, Obids. Marion Oliver, 130, West Jefferson, vs. Peck Davis, 135, Lansing. John Mac Pennington, 100, West Jefferson, vs. Edwin Weaver, 90, West Jefferson. R. C. Miller, 90, West Jefferson, vs. Wayne Taylor, 92, West Jefferson. Slick Penninvton, 65, West Jeffer son, vs. A. M. Jones, 72, W. Jefferson. Tee Grayson, 74, West Jefferson, vs. Pat Caudill, 70, Smethport. DELENQUENT TAXPAYERS GIVEN FINAL NOTICES At the order of the Board of County Commissioners, Sheriff H. M. Miller has begun making up a list of delinquent taxpayers for 1934 for advertising during the month of May. Sheriff Miller asks these who possibly can to come in and pay their taxes before the order made by the Commissioners goes into effect. WILMORE CRAVEN IN HOSPITAL AS RESULT OF CUTTING AFFRAY Sunday in West Jefferson Proves to Be One of Worst in Long Time; Five Men Jailed Wilmore Craven, of the Ore Knob section, is in the hospital at North Wilkesboro as a result of a cutting affray in which Henry Thomas, local mechanic is being held without bail until it is seen whether Craven will recover. The fight took place in West Jefferson Sunday afternoon. According to Policeman Keys, five were placed in jail Sunday charged with fighting and drunkeness. Mayoi H. C. Tucker trir i W. M. Kelley, an employee of the state, working on the Wagoner road, Monday and fined him ten dollars and costs for public drunkeness. Rex Craven also appear ed before Mayor Tucker and was fin ed ten dollars and the costs for driv ing a car while intoxicated. Bond was given until The 20th. THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1935; WEST JEFFERSON, N. C. 4% Mr. Garner Meets a Lord Mayor Wm ' < Mi fPHL mt : ji' W lift ' ' vUi 1 BKI -W, " v -AW I sk If ; ' " "'JSkM ■MMMk /1 1 mk > Wt'}*WT R M m sis < gsgjy <, r * i | ffr* ||P T Jr' •:« Vice President John M. Garner is here seen with a distinguished visitor from overseas who stepped into the Capitol at Washington to chat with the gentleman from Uvalde. He is Rt. Hon. Alderman Alfred Byrne, lord mayor of Dublin. Irish Free State. DOUGHTON TO MAKE DEFINITE STATEMENTOF GOVERNORSHIP REV. MR. STAFFORD TO OPEN NATHANS CREEK COMMENCEMENT SUN. Rev. G. R. Safford, of Jeffer son, will open the Nathans Creek High School commencement ex ercises on Sunday, April 21, at two o’clock in the afternoon, according to news reaching here just as the paper goes to press. The graded school operetta will be staged Thursday night, April 25. Further and fuller de tails will be carried next week. Names of winning students in the county-wide scholastic and athletic tournament which was held at Nathans Creek Saturday will also be carried next week. IDEAL CLEANERS PLAN TO INSTALL LAUNDRY Robert G. Barr, manager of the Ideal Cleaner of this city, has an nounced that he is going forward with plans to install a modem laun dry in his cleaning establishment and that he will be ready to serve the county in this capacity within the next two weeks. Mr. Barr has, also announced that* he expects to install a dyeing plant at an early date. Mr. Ted Joines is with Mr. Barr again after having spent several weeks in Greensboro during the win ter studying better methods of clean ing and of dyeing. He will be in charge of the work at the local shop. Court Proceedings as Recorded at Close of April Term The following cases were disposed of during the April term of court which adjourned Saturday :(In each case, unless otherwise designed, the state is 'the persecution and the names given represent the defedants.) Joe Parsons, failure to pay costs, three months on road. Arthur Hamilton vs Edna Hamilton (colored) divorce granted. Paul Parsons vs Esther Parsons, divorce granted. Glen. R. W. Blevins vs Mabel Blevins, divorce granted. Callie Waddell vs R. A. Waddell, et al, compromised. Lena South, f. and a-, defendant pleads guilty. Six months in jail, suspended on condition that she not associate with co-defendant, Lon Royal, obey laws in general, and pay one-half of costs on or before fall term of court. Elmer Ham, disturbing religious worship. Three months on road, su spended on payment of ten dollars and good behaviour for three years. Win Greer and Stell Green, f. and a., plead guilty. Greer, now married, has instituted divorce proceedings and intends to marry co-defendant. Judgment continued until fall court. Austin Brown and Arthur Osborne, Eighth District Congressman to De cide One Way or Other by ' April Thirtieth According to a statement made this week to members of the state press, Representative Robert L. Doughton will not later than April 30 appraise the people of the state of his inten tions about entering the primary as candidate for governor. Mr. Dough ton will do this, not alone from a sense of duty to friends in all parts of the state who have tendered him support, should he be a candidate, but he doubtless is giving a timely thought to the potential candidates for the congressional nomination in his district. When questioned by newspaper men Mr. Doughton said: “My name having been mentioned so frequently in connection with the Democratic nomination for governor in 1936, I feel that I should, at an early date, let my friends, and all who are iter ested know what I expect to do about the matter. “I trust that my many friends, who have either written me or discussed the matter with me personally, one or both, will not feel that I am unduly delaying a decision in this important matter, for as everyone knows, we are, and have been for some time, engaged in one of the busist and most important sessions of Congress in my public career, and I have had little time to give to consideration of other matters. housebreaking and larceny, plead guilty. Three years in penitentiary suspended on good behaviour. Will Bumgarer, pretense, continued. Lon Royal, f. and a., nol pros with leave. Gwyn Graham, embezzlement, con tinued. Alonzo Royal, c. c. w., nol pros with leave. Glen Snyder, dist. rel. worship, cont, in absence of Judge Bowie. Scott Cox (Colored), non''support, continued. Scott Gambill and Stacey Richard son, a. w. d. w., nol pros with leave. Charley Mahaffey, not pros with leave. Tom Brooks, vio. pro. law, contin ued. Hazard Roten, dist, rel. worship, continued. • Glen Stike, viol. pro. law, nol pros with leave. Commey Miller, a. d. w., con tinued. Artie Owen and Reeves Owen; Artie, nol pros with leave; Reeves, not guilty. Vonley Nichols, c. c. w., alias capias. (Continued on Page Eight) PARKWAY SURVEYED AS FAR * SOUTH AS BLOWING ROCK, N. C. REPRESENTATIVE DOUGHTON ASKS FOR EROSION WORK “Farmer Bob” Says 80 Per Cent of New Funds so Applied Will * Go for Actual Labor Representative Doughton of North Carolina, was a White House caller .1 Yvasiiington last week, accompany ing a mid-western delegation on the *ise of work relief funds for soil ero sion projects. Doughton said he believed use of this money for such projects was one of the best ways to obtain greater benefits. “Eighty per cent of the money spent* in soil erosion projects goes for labor,” he added. It is contemplated to use $50,000,000 of the work relief funds for such pro jects this year, and $100,000,000 next. REVENUE BILL IS $5,000,000 SHORT Many Proposals Brought Forth as to Making Up Huge Deficit N of United States The revenue bill—on which the fate of the state hangs for the next two years—passed the first reading in the Senate Tuesday, but a fight was pre dicted before it passed the second reading due to the fact that it is estimated to be $5,241,000 short of meeting the needs of the biennial ap propriations bill, now awaiting senate action. Senator Gravely of Nash, chairman of senate appropriations and leader of the anti-sales taxers, told newspaper men that- efforts would be made to secure adoption of several rejected means of raising additional revenue when the bill comes up for second reading. Among those mentioned by leaders of various factions as likely to be offered were amendments to: Strike out the present exemption of nine basic food articles, estimated to increase the revenue yield by $1,500,- 000 annually; Reduce the number of exempted articles to flour, meal, lard, milk and “fatback” meat, estimated to increase revenue by $750,000; Put back the $294,000 tax on hotel room rentals; Put back the $300,000 tax on chain filling-stations; Put back the $500,000 normal in come tax on dividends form stocks in domestic corporations; Increase Schedule B license tax by 15 per cent, allowing counties and town to levy their present taxes un der this section, or double state Schedule B taxes and prohibit coun ties and town from levying any tax under the section; Increase the maximum limitation on the sales tax from $lO to sls. HARRISON TO PRESENT BONUS BILL PRESIDENT MAY APPROVE Harrison, chairman of the senate finance committee has completed the draft of a $1,300,000,000 com promise bonus bill he will introduce this week in his capacity as adminis tration leader on the issue. An informal warning was sounded at the White House that President Roosevelt was not committed to any specific measure, but his leaders on Capitol Hill were confidnt he would approve the bill to be offered by Har rison. The bill was estimated to cost $1,300,000,000 which Harrison said was $1,000,000,000 less than Pat man bill passed by the house, but $500,000,000 more than the present law. Under the Harrison proposal, tjie maturity date of the certificates' would be advanced from 1945 to 1938. It was understood the bill did not propose to offer cash on the present value of the certificates but to pro pose an exchange under which would be readily convertible into cash be cause of the interest they offered for the next three years. SUBSCRIBE to The Skyland Post, the only news paper that’s printed in Ashe county, and I W the newspaper that is by far the most waoMMi popular and widely read of any circulated in Ashe. “Construction to Begin Sometime This Summer” According to Engineer Location work preparatory to con struction of the North Carolina half of the mountain parkway is progress ing at a satisfactory rate, R. Getty Browning, location and claims engi neer for the State Highway and Public Works commission, reported last week.' He said “construction will begin sometime this summer. That’s about as definite as we can make it now.” Plans have been completed for that stretch of the road from the Virginia line near Mt. Airy to Airbellows gap in Alleghany county. The state has surveyed 70 miles of the route to a point near Blowing Rock, and flag ging operations have proceeded to the Mt. Mitchell sector. “The state is making good progress in acquiring the rights-of-way,” said Browning. “We are finding the people quite willing to co-operate in this respect.” COMMENCEMENT BEGINS AT ELKLAND SATURDAY NIGHT Superintendent J. B. Hash to Deliver Various Certificates at Exer cises on April 25 Elkland High School commence ment will begin Saturday night April 20th with the operetta “Pandora”. This is a very popular operetta and promises to be entertaining. The district seventh grade gradua tion exercises will be given Thursday night, April 25th. v Supt. J. B. Hash will be present at this time and will deliver reading circle, perfect atten dance, and seventh grade certificates. Graduation exercises will be held Friday night, April 26th. The commencement play,” Dotty and Daffy,” will be presented Satur day night April 27. This play has a number of good roles and is a whirl wind of laughs from beginning to end. A cordial invitation is extended to all. Patrons and friends of the school are urged to be present. A small admission fee will be charged for the operetta and com mencement play. WHITTINGTON CONSIDERS PLACE HELD BY DOWNS Rev. P. E. Dowms, pastor of the Baptist church in this city for the past two years, will leave this week for his new w T ork as pastor of the Baptist church in Clemmons. He may be succeded by Rev. W. T. Whitting ton, who will preach a trial sermon Easter Sunday morning at the regu lar eleven o’clock hour. Mr. and Mrs. Downs and family have been listed among the city’s most popular and representative peo ple during their so-journ here, and it is with real regret that their many friends will learn of their leaving. J. F. RHODES BUYS INTEREST IN RHODES FURNITURE CO. J. F. Rhodes, brother of Jack Rhodes, of this city, has bought a half-interest in the Rhodes Furniture Store and expects to move his family here from North Wilkesboro some time in the near future. The Rhodes Furniture Store has been a distinct addition to the busi ness part of the city since it moved here two years ago, and the town will be glad to have another member of the Rhodes family in its midst. BAPTIST WOMEN TO HOLD EASTER FOOD SALE SAT. The members of the Woman’s Mis sionary Society of the West Jefferson Baptist Church will hold an Easter food sale at the Ray Drug Store Sat urday morning, April 20, beginning at ten o’clock. Butter, eggs, chickens, cakes, pies, etc., will be on sale and the public is cordially invited to come and buy. Those contributing to the sale are urged to get their contributions in before fen o’clock. There remain only 10 dry states in the Unioft—Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Kansas, Mississippi, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.
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