THE
ALLEGHANY TIMES
Published Every Thursday
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Sparta, N. C.
D. C. SHORES, Editor
Appreciation To Our
Subscribers
The Times wants to thank the
subscribers who came to our rescue
when we asked those in arrears to
help us on their subscriptions.
Many of our friends have helped
us when it was a sacrifice to do it
and have given us produce and cash
to settle their accounts.
There are still a great many who
have not paid their subscription
whom we feel could help us with
very little effort.
We are getting our equipment
back in order as fast as possible and
will be able to print as before with
in a short time, however, it takes
money to accomplish these things
and we still are in bad need of cash.
We want to continue our efforts
until the entire county will be proud
of their county paper as being one
of the best in the country.
Please keep 'us in mind and bring
us cash or anything you have to
spare to settle your past due ac
count. We will not mention the
things we wrould like for you to
bring, just bring anything you have
and we will allow you market price.
The Value Of A Dog
Some people never realize the val
ue of a dog. One that works and
receives credit enough, but usually
there is really a need for seldom
the dog that is not worth one meal
is the one that gets more petting
and good food.
Numbers of people in the county
who are asking help from the relief
fund have from one to four or five
dogs to feed and in most cases the
dog is only a boarder and a pet of
the family. This kind of dog is
worthless and usually is underfed
and is more apt to be connected with
the destruction of sheep and goats
than one that is properly fed and
has work to do.
About two weeks ago. Mr. W. P.
Thompson had thirty-three goats
killed by some dog. He is not posi
tive abi)ut whose dog it. was, how
ever, there has been a wild dog seen
numerous times in his neighborhood
and no one is able to get hear him.
He is a large German police and
is as wild as a fox. This perhaps
is the very dog that killed Mr.
Thompson's goats. This dog belongs
to someone and i,t-is very doubtful
if the owner pays a cent to the coun
ty for him, yet the county will have
to pay Mr. Thompson in the neigh
borhood of $50.00 for th se goats
and not likely get on? cent tax for
the murderer.
A heavy penalty should be im
posed upon all persons allowing
their dogs, whether valuable or not,
running around over the county and
funds from this source should be
applied to pay some competent man
to look after stray dogs. This in.
our judgment, would save the ta v
payers of the county many dollars
in the course of a year.
The situation is getting worse
every yea and despite all the ef
forts on the part of the Board of
County Commissioners to combat
this menace.
A person applying for help from
the relief fund should be required
to dispose of all dogs in his family
before this help should be granted.
Dogs of no value should be taxed
so high that the owner had rather
dispose of him than pay the tax and
a close check should be made to
see that each dog in the county is
listed for taxation and the tax rate
at the time of listing in the order
of the worth of the dog.
So many people have what they
term guard dogs, and at least half
the time the dog is strayed away
from home in some kind of mischief
instead of being at home to guard
it like the owner would have you
believe.
Practically every year the com
missioners pay out for sheep that
have been killed by dogs, far more
than they receive from the dog tax
and we are reasonably sure that at
least half the dogs in the county are
not listed on the tax books at all.
It seems that in these days of
hard times when everyone is of
necessity forced to economize, that
the value of a dog should be taken
into consideration, and save
hundreds of dollars that it costs to
ignore the present dog situation.
Church News
Methodist
Regular services will be held at
Sparta at 11 a. m.
Services will be held at Walnut
Branch Sunday afternoon at 2:30.
. Missionary Baptist
Rev. J. L. Underwood will fill
bis regular appointment at Scott
ville next Sunday at 11 a. m.
The State Welfare Agencies have
informed us that there is no money
in sight for relief work next winter.
They have cautioned all the counties
of the state„that itk will be necessary
for people who have been depending
on relief work, to grow a large car
den and plenty of food and feed
stuff for the coming year.
People who are depending on
work by the day for a living, no
doubt will see many a hungry day
next winter, unless they plant a
crop this spring to insure sufficient
food for the coming year. From all
indications we are facing the hard
est year we have seen since the de
pression started. We have heard
of the depression before, but in my
opinion we will feel it this year. The
family who does not grow enough
j garden and food crops to last
through next winter will feel the
| depression with an empty stomach.
! At a meeting of the county offi
cials, county welfare officer and
! county agent on Monday of this week
; the following committee were ap
pointed for each township to find
| tillable land for families in their
! communities who do not have suffi
| cient land to cultivate this year and
to impress them with, the importance
| of growing a large garden.
Glade Creek: Mrs. M. A. Higgins,
| Mrs. Mack Wagoner, W. H. Handy,
j Glenn Evans, Kenny Truitt and Pack
| Murphy.
Cherry Lane: Mrs. J. T. Inslceep,
Miss Lillian Bryan, Rev. C. W. Ir
win. Daniel Wagoner and P. C.
Collins.
Gap Civil: Mrs. T. J. Carson,
IVHiss Ruby Woodruff, Carl Irwin,
Calton Sparks, Coy Joines, Jessie
McCoin, Tom Rector, James Wag
oner and F. H. Jackson.
Whitehead: Mrs. Will Pugh, Mrs.
Bess Spicer, Marion Joines, Lee
: Caudill, Jim Brown and Joe Wagon
er. t
Cranberry: Mrs. W. F. Doughton,
: Mrs. Avery Waddell, M. E. Reeves,
: Glenn Taylor, Van Miller and Hort
Mi lie \
Prathers Creek: Mrs. Mack San
ders, Mrs. Dan Jones, John Richard
j son. W. H. Weaver. ,C. E. Jones,
| Charlie Edwards and Charlie Mitch
i ell.
Piny Creek: Miss Pearl Fields,
(Miss Edna Fletcher, John R. Halsey,
Mack Rutherford, C. F. Osborne and
Emerson, Blacft.
It is urgently requested that the
members of the above committees,
render and service they can in se
. curing sufficient tillable land for the
families in their communities who
do not have enough land to culti
> vat?.
I have an order for sixty thousand
pounds of bird-eye and kidney beans.
Farms's who have beans to sell
should get in touch with me imme
diately.
NEW FORD CENTER
OF MUCH INTEREST
Is On Display At Show
room of Alleghany
Motor Sales
The first of the new Ford V-8
I cylinder, 112 inch wheelbase motor
| cars, placed on display here Satur
I day morning in the Alleghany Motor
| Sales showroom, has attracted wide
! attention and interest among local
1 motorists. ^
The new;, V-S is the largest and
most powerful Ford ever built. It
I has new and distinctively modern
lines, a most attractive front end,
longer wheelbase, larger and room
ier bodies, faster acceleration, in
creased power and speed and is ex
ceptionally economical in operation.
With its 75-horsepower, V-8 engine,
the New Ford is capable of a sus
tained speed of 80 miles an hour.
The styling of the 14 body types
expresses the new mode in motor
car building. The modern note is
found in the sloping Vee radiator
grill, the skirted fenders, newly-de
signed head-lamps, cowl lamps and
bumpers, the curve of the hoodside
ventilators, the 20 degree slant of
the windshield, the curved roof
header, the reverse curve of the
rear quarter and the backward
sweep of the apron masking the
gasoline tank.
The new all-steel bodies are ma
terially wider, almost a foot longer
and consequently much roomier. The
attractive instrument panel is di
rectly in front of the driver, with a
large package compartment at the
right side of the instrument board.
Front seats in closed cars are fully
adjustable. Interior fittings are
luxurious. Options in upholstery
and a wide choice of body colors are
available.
The improved V-8 engine is fitted f
with all-aluminum cylinder heads, i
one of the most noteworthy forward
steps in motor design in many years.
Because aluminum dissipates heat,
more rapidly, the use of the alumi-l
num cylinder heads permits higher1
compression pressure and results in j
increased speed, power and smooth-[
ness, faster acceleration and added
fuel economy.
LEAS SAID “TRICKED”
Col. Luke Lea and Luke Lea, Jr.,
said Sunday that “having been
tricked and trapped” in North Caro
lina and railroaded to a conviction
without any evidence of guilt,” they
had been “unwilling to take chances
involved in remaining in Nashville”
before their extradition hearing and
for that reason had come to James
town, Tenn.
NOTICE OF SALE UNDER
EXECUTION
State of North Carolina.
County of Alleghany.
In the Superior Court
Before the Clerk
B. O. Choate and P. L. Choate,
Plaintiffs.
vs.
Claude Pruitt and M. A. (Artis)
Pruitt Defendants
By virtue of an execution directed
to the undersigned from the Super
ior Court of Alleghany county in the
above entitled action, I will on
Monday, the 3rd day of April, 1933,
at one o'clock P. M., at the court
house door of said county, sell to
the highest bidder for cash to satis
fy said execution, all the right, title
and interest which the defendant M.
A. (Artis) Pruitt has, or had at the
time of the levy attachment, in the
following described real estate, to
wit:
Lying on the waters of Little Riv
er, adjoining the lands <?f L. V.
Richardson, W. P. Maxwell and
others, being the land conveyed by
M. T. Pruitt and wife to the de
fendants, which deed is recorded in
Book 29, page 99 of the office of
the register of deeds of Alleghany
county, which tract of land contains
approximately 100 acres.
This the 13th day of February,
1933.
R. B. McMillan,
3-9 Sheriff
NOTICE
State of North Carolina,
County of Alleghany.
By virtue of a Deed of Trust, exe
cuted to the undersigned on Dec. 4,
1922, by William Watson and wife
Docia Watson to secureJiaie payment
of a bond, executed byOohn Choate,
Guardian of Marjorie Choate, in the
sum of $350.00, due twelve months
alter date, with interest thereon, on
which note there is a balance due of
approximately $3 75.00, and, in de
fault of the payment of the same,
and upon demand of the said John
Choate, Guardian, I will, under the
powers contained in said Deed of
• Trust, offer for sale at public auc
tion for cash to the highest bidder at
the court house door at Sparta, N.
C., at one o’clock p. in., on Monday,
March Gth, 1933, a certain tract of
land described in said Deed of Trust
lying on the waters of Little River
adjoining the lands of L. C. Caudill,
Lester Waddell, E. Leff Wagoner,
Reeves Watson and others, being
the land conveyed by John F. Wat
son and wife to Will Watson, on
Feb. 24, 1916. and embracing in
two tracts aggregating approximately
27 acres, 22 square rods, more or
less, the same being specifically des
cribed in the said deed from John
F. Watson and wife, recorded in
Book 29, page 136 of the office of
the Register of Deeds of Alleghany
county to which deed and record
reference is hereby made for speci
fic calls.
This Jan. 31, 1933.
C. W. EDWARDS,
2-23 Trustee.
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