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VOLUME VII, NUMBER 18
$28,000 Allotted by
WPA for Streets in
West Jefferson
Sewerage Appropriation Made;
City Must Furnish Percent
of Amount Given
$28,000 has been appropriated by
the Works Progress Administration
for grading and surfacing the streets
of West Jefferson. The appropria
tion was made during the past week.
A previous appropriation has been
made for installing a sewerage sys
tem here.
According to the WPA rules and
regulations, the town itself will
have to furnish about twenty-five
percent of the amount given and
this is, at present, being studied by
the town mayor and board of aider
men. Several plans foi' raising the
money has been suggested but noth
ing definite has been settled on. It
is hoped, however, that the money
can be made available and that
work will start at once.
Missionary Slated to
Preach Here Friday
Dr. Stokes to Assist Rev. W. J.
Huneycutt in Revival Here
Beginning on Friday
Dr. J. L. Stokes, pastor of the
Methodist church, Randleman, N. C.,
will assist in a ten-day rivival meet
ing which begins at the West Jeff- ;
erson Methodist, church on Friday.
evening of this week at 8:00 o’clock.
Dr. Stokes’ father, Dr. M. B.
Stokes, has for the nest thirty years
been a leading missionary in Korea.
At present he is devoting the major’;
part of his time on a translation of
the New Testament into Korean and
as presiding elder of one of the dis
tricts.
Dr. J. L. Stokes was born in Ko
rea and lived there unt.l he came to
the United States for college train
ing. After receiving an A. B. degree
from Asbury College (Kentucky),
he spent three years at Duke Uni
versity where he was given his B.
D. Later he received his Ph. D. de
gree at Yale University.
During his pastorate at Randle
man, he has proven himself an able
preacher and popular pastor. Every
one is invited to hear him.
PLAY AT LAUREL SPRINGS
“Going Modern” to Be Given for
Benefit of School Building
“Going Modern”, a side-splitting
comedy, will be presented at the
Laurel Springs school aduitorium,
Saturday, May 15, at eight o’clock.
The proceeds from the performance
■will go towards the expenses of the
new building which has recently
been built on the site where the old
Laurel Springs academy stood.
String music will be played dur
ing the acts.
The public is cordially urged to
be present and help enjoy an eve
ning of fun and entertainment. The
small admission charge will be fif
teen and twenty-five cents.
Big Crowd Expected
at Exhibit in Boone
Hon. W. P. Murphy to Deliver
Keynote Address; Program
to Be Educational
Mrs. Marion G. Faison, supervisor
of the 3rd WPA Adult Education
district, states that the dramatized
exhibit that will be held in Boone
at A. S. T. C., Friday is expected to
draw large crowds from the entire
district. Lunch will be served on the
grounds and the program, which
will be educational, will be interest
ing from start to finish. The exhibits
will include samples of the work
done by the adult teachers during
the year.
Hon. Walter P. Murphy, of Salis
bury, will be the keynote speaker of
the occasion. The program will be
gin at ten o’clock, and the public is
invited.
OBIDS MAN BECOMES
MASTER MASON HERE
William G. Beshears, of Obids,
was raised to the sublime degree of
master mason at a called meeting
of Ashe Lodge No. 671 here Tues
day night. Worshipful Master Ira T.
Johnston expressed himself as hav
ing seen no better candidate who
took the degrees “more attentively,
seriously, and intelligently than did
Bro. Beshears.”
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SI.OO a Year in Ashe County
Time Off From the Spanish War
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Two loyalist militiamen in the front line trenches before Madrid
crouch behind their sandbags and read two books they p : cked up on their
way up from the rear during a temporary lull in the fighting. The man
at the left has kept his gun in place, and the other has his where he can
get it quickly.
SPARTA MAN DIES
T. J. Carson Prominent in Church
and Civic Affairs of Alleghany
Sparta, April 30.—Thomas Jeffer
son Carson, 73, one of Alleghany
county’s outstanding citizens and a
brother-in-law of Congressman R. L.
Doughton and ex-Lieu tenant Gover- j
nor Rufus A. Doughton, died at his ,
home here this afternoon at one
o’clock. He had been ill only a short
time.
Mr. Carson was the third son of
Thomas J. and Catherine Carson.
He was married to Miss Cora
Doughton on December 5, 1888. He
and Mrs. Carson would have observ
ed their golden wedding next year.
Throughout his life Mr. Carson
was active in civic affairs. He had
served as superintendent of Alle
ghany county schools for a number
of years and was a member of the
board of county commissioners and
the board of education for many
vears. For many years he was cash- s
ier of the Bank of Sparta and was a
director of the bank at the time of
his death.
In addition to his civic life, Mr.
Carson was active in religious af
fairs and for forty years was a mem
ber of the Methodist Church.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs.
Cora Doughton Carson; one daugh
ter, Mrs. Luther Boyer, of Charlotte;
two sons, Thomas D. Carson, of
Washington, D. C., and George Car
son, of Elizabeth City; four grand
children and one brother, Robert S.
Carson, of Peach Bottom, Va.
Funeral services were held in
Sparta Saturday afternoon.
MRS. SUSAN FARMER DIES
Pioneer of Whitetop Country Taken
by Case of Pneumonia
Mrs. Susan Taylor Farmer, wife
of Wilburn F. Farmer, died at her
home in the Whitetop community,
Monday, April 26th, with pneu
monia.
Mrs. Farmer, with her husband,
settled in this section when wild
beasts roamed the forest and the
whole country was a wilderness.
She was the mother of 16 children,
of whom 13 are living. She is also
survived by her husband, a number
of grandchildren, great-grandchil
dren, and even great-great-grand
children.
Funeral services were conducted
Thursday at the home by Rev. Am
brose Miller and others. She was
laid to rest in the Farmer cemetery
on the farm where she had resided
since early marriage. She will be
greatly missed in this community
by all who knew and loved her. She
was widely and affectionately
known as “Grandma Farmer”.
TO ANNOUNCE COMMITTEES
First Monday Spent as New Board
Listens to Committee Requests
The new Ashe County Board of
Education met Monday in the office
of the county superintendent and
spent the entire day listening to and
considering requests from various
school communities for selections
for school committeemen for the
coming year. No definite selections
were made, however, but the ap
pointments will be made within the
next week and it is expected that
they will be ready for publication in
the next issue of the Skyland Post.
The new board is composed of Dr.
R. F. Barr, chairman, and Dr. R. C.
Ray and Austin Jones, members.
THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1937, WEST JEFFERSON, N. C.
Legion Auxiliary
to Help Celebrate
Poppy Day Here
Mrs. Guy Denny, President, to
Supervise Selling Poppies
on May 29th in Ashe
An appeal for general wearing of
the memorial poppy in remebrace
of the World War dead on Poppy
Day, Saturday, May 29th, was issued
this week by Mrs. Guy Denney,
president of the Ashe county unit
of the American Legion Auxiliary.
She asked that every person in Ashe
county pay honor to the men of the
city and of the nation who gave
their lives in defense of the country
by wearing a poppy on Poppy Day.
“The poppy is the individual trib
ute to the memory of the men who
died in World War service,” said
Mrs. Denney. “Everyone can wear
a poppy to show that he remembers
and is grateful for the galant sacri
fices made for America’s security
and democracy. Evevry patriotic
citizen will take part in the observ
ance of Poppy Day.
“The poppy is the symbol of su
preme sacrifice. It stands for the
highest type of patriotism we can
conceive. Wearing this little flower
awakens in our hearts a deeper con
ception of our duties to our country.
It reminds us that life itself is not
too much to give if our country is
in danger and gives us inspiration
to serve in peace with the same
spirit of patriotic devotion that in
spired those who died among the
poppies of France.”
Members of the auxiliary will dis
tribute poppies on the streets all day
Saturday, receiving in exchange for
them contributions for the legion
and auxiliary welfare work among
the disabled veterans and needy
families of the veterans. The pop
pies have been made by disabled
veterans.
Gambill Brothers
to Hold Clinic in
June for Children
Operations to Be Done for Half
of Regular Price; Interested
Persons Should Register
Dr. Frank and Dr. Reeves Gam
bill, eye, ear, nose, and throat speci
alists from Lincolnton, will hold a
countywide clinic at the West Jeff
erson High School building in 3une.
The date will be announced later.
The Drs. Gambill held a clinic
here last year on the same terms
that they plan to hold the one this
year. The work was very satisfac
tory and almost a hundred opera
tions were performed.
The regular tonsil-adenoid opera
tion costs twenty-five dollars, but
during the clinic a special price of
twelve-fifty will be made.
All parents who have children
needing this operation are asked to
get in touch with Dr. Frank Gam
bill, Lincolnton, N. C., at once and
make arrangements as to dates and
to payments.
The clinic will furnish registered
trained nurses to assist the surgeons.
Preparations are being made to take
care of a large number of patients
and for that reason, those planning
to come are urged to register with
Dr. Gambill as soon as possible.
I Brief News
From the
State and Nation
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WILSON LIQUOR PROFITS
FOR 9 MONTHS $80,279
Officials of the Wilson county
alcoholic beverage control board
reported Tuesday profits for the
first nine months of the current
fiscal year aggregated $80,279.78
on sales which totaled $381,196.25.
The profits since the stores were
opened in July 1935 totaled SIBO,-
325.67, it was announced.
COLUMBUS COUNTY
DRYS ARE HAPPY
Unofficial returns from 16 out
of Columbus county’s 23 precincts
Tuesday gave opponents of county
liquor stores 2,922 votes and pro
ponents 1,325.
Wets virtually conceded defeat
as the remaining precincts are
strongholds of the drys.
Three counties have held liquor
referenda under the 1937 county
control law. Dare county went dry
by a narrow’ margin and the vote
was contested. Durham county
went wet by an overwhelming
majority.
EX-KING EDWARD
MEETS FIANCEE
The Duke of Windsor, reunited
with Wallis Simpson in Mont,
France, this week chose to keep
their marriage plans a secret until
after the coronation cf his brother.
King George VI will be crown
ed May 12, as the former Edwa d
VIII was to have been, and until
after that event, the Duke decid
ed, he will refrain from saying
when he will make the former
Baltimore belle the Duchess of
Windsor.
The American-born woman and
the man who decided that their
love was more important than the
world’s most influential throne
were reunited after a separation
of five months and one day.
He carried a bunch of flowers to
the door of his chosen lady, not of
royalty born, and embraced her in
full view of onlookers from a
world of commoners.
ALLS FOR 10 PER
CENT REDUCTION
Representative Woodrum, Dem
ocrat, Virginia, asked heads of 32
independent agencies of the gov
ernment this week to “resurvey
and reconsider your appropriation
needs for 1938” with a view to
helping the house appropriations
committee make “at least a 10 per
cent reduction.”
BULLETS STOP
PRISON BREAK
Machine gun and rifle bullets
ended an attempted prison break
Minday in Moundsville, W. Va.,
killing three convicts and critical
ly wounding another.
Guards on the fortress-like
walls of West Virginia penitenti
ary and within the six-acre en
closure turned their weapons on
a truck seized by the four in their
attempt to rush the prison gates.
More than 1,500 other prisoners
watched the wild dash of the
truck and the fusillade of shots
from the yard in which they had
been sent for the afternoon recre
ational period.
They huddled in groups near
the stone walls during the firing
and not a guard or a prisoner, ex
cept those participating in the
break, was injured.
ASHE STUDENTS OFFICERS
AT LEES-McRAE COLLEGE
Banner Elk, April 28. —Paul Chap
lin, of Charlotte, was elected presi
dent of the Christian Association at
Lees-Mcßae College last week. Oth
er officers chosen were: Mary Hart
sog, Husk, vice-president; Irene
Cornett, Comera Rock, Virginia,
secretary; and Ragland Fletcher,
treasurer.
Chaplin succeeds Ray Stuart, Ash
land, who is also president of the
senior class at Lees-Mcßae. All of
the new officers are freshmen, and
have been active in campus organi
zations.
The annual banquet of the Young
People’s Christian Association will
be held at the college Wednesday
$1.25 a Year Out of County
“GET A JOB, GIRLS”
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Every woman should have a pro
fession wha'.he” she inlands to
marry or not, in the opinion of Mrs.
Mary Roebling, herself a successiui
bank president in Trenton, N. J.
She b illeves that women are be
coming increasingly important in
business, in fact, she predicts that
“within the next ten or twenty years
women will be doing the deciding.”
Patients at Duke
Hospital Pay Only
Part of Expenses
Ashe County Patients Given 221
Days of Care at Cost of
$615 in. Durham
Durham, April 29.—Seventy-five
counties of the state made the lot
of patients in Duke hospital easier
luring the past year by assisting in
their care, report of the hospital, re
cently issued, shows. The help given
’’y counties ranged form $2 to more
than $9,000, according to the number
of patients sent from each county.
During the year the 10,750 pati
ents who were received at Duke
hospital travelled a total of 1,547,000
miles, or an average round trip of
144 miles for each patient.
The hospital’s report shows that
$509,797.80 was spent on patients or
$4.51 for each patient each day. Pa
tients themselves were able to pay
but 53.1 percent of their hospital ex
penses. Nearly $23,000 was paid for
them by their home counties.
Patients from Ashe county were
given 221 days of care, of which
£645.21 was paid by patients them
selves, nothing by the county or
city, nothing by others, and $351.50
by Duke hospital.
CMTC to Open This
Year on August 3rd
B. D. Barr to Again Be in Charge
of Registration From Ashe
County for CMTC
Colonel J. W. Harrelson of Ra
leigh, N. C., and Mr. David Horton
of Columbia, S. C., Civilian Aides to
the Secretary of War, have an
nounced that the Citizen’s Military
Training Camp to be held this year
at Fort Bragg, N. C., will open on
August 3rd and close on September
Ist. North Carolina’s quota is 801
enrollees, while South Carolina has
a quota of 143.
The Procurement Campaign is
now in full swing and a great many
applications have already been re
ceived at the Post. Major Schum
burg McGehee, 13th Field Artillery
Brigade, has been appointed C. M.
T. C. Procurement Officer with of
fice at Fort Bragg, N. C., and it is
suggested that the boys interested
in going to camp write Major Mc-
Gehee or apply to their county rep
resentative for application blanks or
information regarding the camp.
While these camps are supported
by the Federal Government for the
purpose of giving military training
to those who volunteer for it, every
effort is made to make the camp
attractive as a vacation proposition.
Afternoons are devoted to athletics,
swimming and games. Entertain
ments of various kinds are offered
during the evening period. Sundays
are devoted to religious services,
both mornings and evenings.
The following list of Ashe and
nearby county representatives and
physicians have volunteered their
services to aid in securing appli
cants and examining them for the
camp. Each county quota is listed
opposite the county.
Ashe county: Lt. B. D. Barr, 8,
Dr. D. C. Jones.
Alleghany county: Lt. R. E. Black,
3, Dr. P. L. Choate.
Watauga county: Mr. W. H. Wal
ker, 6, Dr. H. B. Perry.
Wilkes county: Mr. Joe B. McCoy,
13, Ist Lt. H. B. Smith.
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PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDA'
Tax Advertising
Postponed for 30
Days by Fathers
County Commissioners Spend
Day Attending to Routine
Affairs; Jury Drawn
Advervtising of delinquent tax
payers was postponed by order of
the board of county commissioners
at their first Monday meeting on the
3rd. The postponment was made for
thirty days.
The county fathers spent the day
attending to routine affairs and the
jury was drawn for the special term
of superior court which will convene
this month. The jury drawn is as
follows:
First week: Larkin Powers, Piney
Creek; J. E. Goodman, West Jeffer
son; E. H. Handy, Grassy Creek; H.
T. Goodman, Jefferson; Roby Fran
cis, Grassy Creek; Herman J. Gen
try, Old Fields; J. R. Weaver, Clif
ton; F. C. Hartsog, Cifton; L. L.
Hoppers, Helton; R. F. Marsh, Jeff
erson; R. L. Reeves, Jr., Piney
Creek; W. M. Elliott, North Fork;
E. W. Weaver, West Jefferson; J. B.
Calloway, Obids; Don C. Bare, Peak
Creek; J. W. Waddell, Walnut Hill;
S. M. Stansberry, Elk; J. A. Reeves,
West Jefferson; Thomas Goss, Sr.,
Horse Creek; R. S. Bumgarner, West
Jefferson; John Roark, Clifton;
James Taylor, Harrigan; A. A. Rash,
Walnut Hill, J. H. Lewis, North
Fork.
Second week: C. H. Williams, Old
Fields; G. W. Blevins, Walnut Hill;
A. H. Church, Pine Swamp; J. W.
Duncan, Old Fields; J. S. Stephens,
—th G’ v Eller, Clifton; J. E.
Johnston, Pine Swamp; T. E. Camp
bell, West Jefferson; J. A. Fender,
Chestnut Hill; Robert G. Barr, West
Jefferson; L. L. Hart, Harrigan; W.
S. Sturgill, Chestnut Hill; B. R. Poe,
Jefferson Noah Greer, Pine Swamp;
J. B. Gentry, Old Fields; Fred
Miller, Clifton; Austin Houck, Old
Fields; Wiley Hartsog, Walnut Hill;
T. S. Latham, Creston; Foster Eld
reth, Horse Creek; C. P. Brinegar,
Helton; Wade H. Jones, Clifton;
Judson Blevins, Walnut Hill; Squire
Clark, Harrigan.
Virginia Breeders
to Sell Cattle May 19
Consignment of High Grade
Cattle to Be Sold to High
Bidder at Dublin, Va.
The Southwest Virginia Shorthorn
Breeders Association will hold their
annual sale at Dublin, Virginia, May
19, starting promptly at 1:00 p. m.
The consignment of 22 bulls, most of
which are of breeding age and the
20 females come from nine of the
leading Shorthorn herds in the
state.
The Polled consignment comes
from the R. P. Adams herd at
Whitethorn, Virginia and represents
68 years of continuous constructive
breeding. Such bulls as Golden Ring
Janitor, Rodney, Oakwood Band
master, Fancy Sultan, Ceremonious
Browndale and Oakwood Royal
King are found in the pedigrees of
this good herd.
The Crockett entries are all sired
by Type’s Romper, a good son of
Sni-A-Bar Type, out of a Whitehall
Sultan cow. The entire offering
traces to Cruickshank breeding and
are recognized as good doing cattle
throughout the south.
The two females and one bull
making up the J. C. Eller consign
ment all trace to good Scotch fami
lies. The present herd sire is Robin
hood Chief, a son of the 1934 cham
pion Reveal Masterpiece.
Kirkland Fanns are using Brown
dale Diamond and Royal Browndale
as herd sires and both are rich in
the blood of Browndale Count and
Whitehall Sultan. There are some
herd bull prospects in the six young
bulls coming from this herd. Cattle
from the other herds represent sim
ilar breeding and quality.
Many of the females in this offer
ing wil be well along in calf by sale
time, affording an excellent oppor
tunity to buy the two in one kind
that are always cheap buys.
The bulls are largely of breeding
age and have been well developed.
The members of the animal hus
bandry department at the Virginia
Polytechnic Institute have had an
opportunity to see these animals and
will be glad to furnish detailed de
scription upon request.
DAIRYMEN TO MEET 21ST
The Ashe County Dairmen’s Asso
ciation will hold its regular meeting
on Friday, May 21, at Walter Pen
nington’s. This date has been chang
ed from May 13, which was previ
ously announced.