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ggjfS-SKg-". • . J ;!v } mm wKm . fefc •'l*** Entrance to Booneville where the young and old may take a ride on the Booneville Railroad To Begin Rug Sunday The Burnsville Railroad will start running Sunday afternoon, th-4 23rd, at 1:00 p. m. to 7:00 p. m. To ttie unenlightened, let me hasten to inform you that Bur nsville has not suddenly ac quired a railroad (with apolog ies to the Yancey Railroad). The railroad we refer to is one made and operated by Daniel Boone The little tram rarmj.es over 700 feet of track through “Mountaineer Village”. The en g ne is an exact model of Union Pacific -584 Baldwin engine. —— PUBLIC AUCTION SALE SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 10:30 A.M. On The Premises- Rain Or Shine THE RAMA MCKINNEY FARM 235 acres, more or less, will be offered in 4 to 6 tracts. You may buy one tract or any combination of these tracts or thefarm as a whole. Located in Ramsey— town & Green Mountain Districts, Yancey County, N.C., 1 mile South of Huntdale on McKinney Branch Road. Farm has 2.56 ACRES TOBACCO ALLOTMENT, 17ACRES | CORN BASE,aII crop land in grass and in good state of cultivation. Over 2 miles j P u bl' c road frontage. Plenty of water from springs & mountain branches. | Plenty of good farm land & plenty of good grazing land. Over 100 acres of | good timber; oak, poplar, white pine. £ The buildings are most excellent -7 barns with metal roofs,'some with concrete foundations, all la good shape. | The dwelling house (home) has four bedrooms, living room, don, complete bath, front porch, enclosed bock porch with spring house, hardwood floors throughout, nice yard with shade trees. Included in sale is 50 HEAD Os CATTLE, V of these are PUiUBRED BLACK ANGUS, of which 19. are cows springing and with calves at side; one purebred hull, 7 head of BLACK ANGUS CALVES (PUREBRED); 23 hoadof commercial cattle; Roan, White face t Black Angus steers. MACHINERY A full equipment of horse drawn machinery, (power machinery has been previously sold); mowing machine, hay rake, hillside and flat bottomplows .disk harrow, drag harrows, cultivator plows, corn planter, etc. TERMS OF FARM SALE REASONABLE. CATTLE & MACHINERY WILL BE SOLD FOR CASH. We cordially invite the public to attend the auction of this splendid farm, cattle and machinery. Lunch A Drinks Will Be Served On GroundsJßEE-SSO. BILL A Smaller Bills. £. N. Bowers, Broker BOWER’S BROS., AUCTIONEERS OFFICES— Town House Hotel, Erwin, Tenn. Phone 743-7251 THE YANCEY RECORD Boonevi’le steam locomotive, or inspect the beautiful wrought iron work by Dan Daniel Boone, a direct de scendant of the family of the famed pioneer and trail blazer, Daniel the First, worked on the model engine for two and one half years and the completed train, track and village has taken about ten years of .*„r. Boone’s time. The engine is capable of pulling 4 cars, with a capacity of 13 passengers. “Railroading” is not Mr. Boone’s only talent. He is a master craftsman when it comes to working with metal. Samples of his work may be found in iel Boone, or the many anti ques in Boone’s Museum. Williamsburg, as a great deal c f tv-f> wr'HiPht iron there came •from his forge. There is a great oemanu for h s work from re sidents of Burnsville and from tourists visiting Burnsville. In the small museum adjoining his shop may be found beautiful pieces of iron work, such as wrought iron window grills, doors, andirons, miniature an vil, and a complete set of pre- Revolutionary cookware, as well as unique pieces picked up throughout the country, and as far away as Spain and Mexico. We assure you that a trip to the Daniel Boone Museum, as well as a ride on his miniature train, will be well worth your time, tourists and natives, both young and old. . it* 1 w The eight-driver locomo tive pauses on the platform track at the station, Its huge pistons waiting for the steam when the throttle is pulled by the engineer. It looks as if it could be on Union Paci fic or New York Central French Institute At ASTC Receives Highest Rating BOONE An evaluat on of the NDEA's French Language Institute held throughout the na tion last summer reveals that the Institute held at Appa’achian State Teachers College received a hgher over-all ranking than any of the other 18 participating institutes. The ntensive six-week foreign language studv attracted 52 stu- . dents to ASTC and was the only one of its kind in the Southeast. Nora Cauline Howell, 27, a French teacher at Appalachian has been selected as one of 20 lines but it isn’t. It is a miniature locomot’ve bui’t in. the shop of Da"left-Boone. And it is waiting at the station for a gangl of eager chi’dren to enter the cars behind. French teachers n the U. S. f'T special study in France this summer. The study will,, be part of a New York Univers ty NDEA Joint United States-European Institute. M'si Howe’l, a native of Nor wood in Stanley County, is in her first year of college teach ing. She teaches intermediate French, French culture and civ ilization, conversat'on, advan ced grammar, 20th century lit erature and foregn language methods.
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