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THE ALLEGHANY TIMES( DEVOTED TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY AND BORDERING COUNTIES THE ALLEGHANY TIMES $1.00 PER YEAR CASH IN ADVANCE SPARTA, ALLEGHANY COUNTY, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1933. No. 15. UNDER NEW SALARY SCHEDULE, MAXIMUM PAY FOR TEACHERS $720 YEAR. According to a new salary schedule set up and approved by the State School Commission the absolute max imum pay for teachers with Class-A certificates and eight years experi ence will be $720 a year. The average reduction under 1930-31 salaries is 32 per cent but that is by no means uniform, an entirely new schedule having been devised. The cut for "teachers in the best schools is much more severe, as those schools opera ted nine months instead of eight and supplements ran as high as 50 per cent of the State schedule, so that a number of teachers will now re ceive less than half of former salar ies. Of the $16,000,000 appropriated for public schools, $12,725,000 has been set aside to pay teachers and princi pals. The general control item, in cluding the pay of superintendents and their office forces has been cut from $850,000 to $425,000; and the transportation item from $2,150,000 to $1,700,000; and the operation of plant item from $1,200,000 to $900, 000. The remaining $250,000 of the appropriation was set up as an emer gency fund. It is estimated that there will be 23.000 teachers in the State, of whom 14.000 are white and 9,000 are color ed. The statement of the Commission is as follows: “The sub-committees on the salary schedule, one'from the State Board of Education and one from the State School Commission, today made a joint report to the State School Commission. The report was not sub mitted to the State Board of Educa tion because a quorum of that board was not today available. It will be presented to the State Board of Edu cation at the earliest possible mo ment. The State School Commission approved the report of the sub-corn- j mittees. This schedule is set up in j accordance with Section 122 of the i school machinery act, which requires i the State Board of Education and' the State School Commission to pro vide a maximum salary schedule. This, therefore, is a maximum salary I schedule. The teacher’s schedule is as follows: “Class A certificates: salary begins at $70 per month, with eight annual experience increments of $2.50 each allowed; maximum salary, $90. “Class B: salary begins at $60 per month, wiith six annual experience increments of $2.50 each allowed; maximum salary, $75. “Class C: salary begins at $55, with four annual experience increments of $2.50 each allowed; maximum salary $65. “Elementary A certificates: salary begins at $2.50, with two annual ex perience increments of $2.50 each al lowed; maximum salary, $55. “All others: salary begins at $45 a month, with no increments allow ed; maximum salary, $45. “The principal’s salary schedule is based on the number of teachers al lotted to a school building and pro vides an increment of $5.00 a year for experience as principal for four years. In other words, a principal with four years’ experience in all instances would be entitled to $20.00 a month more than a beginning prin cipal in all schools of more than sev en teachers. “The classified principal’s schedule begins with schools of seven teachers at a fixed salary with an increase based on the number of allotted teachers in excess of seven. The be ginning salary of a principal in a seven-teacher school is $95.00, or $5 more than the maximum salary of a teacher, but adds an experience in crement of $5.00 a year for four years, which would make the maxi mum salary of a principal $25 more than the salary of a teacher, or $115 for a school of this size. There is an increment for each additional allotted teacher from seven to fifteen of $5.00 per teacher; $4.00 per teacher from sixteen to twenty; $3.00 per teacher from twenty-one to thirty; $2.00 per teacher from thirty-one to forty, and $1.00 per teacher from there on. The salary of the superintending princi pals of city administrative units fol lows this schedule with a maximum of $2800.00 per year." COUNTY EPWORTH LEAGUES TO HOLD GROUP MEETING SATURDAY. Saturday, August 26 an all day League program will be held at Spar ta Methodist church. It will invove all six Leagues on the charge. The program will begin at 10 A. M., and close at 3:30 P. M. All Leagues are showing great enthusiasm and we expect a large crowd. Each Leaguer will bring a lunch and dinner will be spread under the large oak in the church yard. The public has a hearty welcome to hear the program. A nice medal will begiven by Mrs. Russell to the winner in the recitation contest. The program for the day will be as follows: Morning Session. 1. Recitation contest by two speak ers from each of the six leagues on the charge. Medal will be given to winner. 2. Each league will give a special number of music. 3 Each League President will give or be responsible for a three or four minute talk on subject subjected by president. Afternoon Session. 1. Social hour. One hour of out-of door games, directed by Joe Cox. 2. League Union. The League Union President, Joe Cox, will preside over the Conference and conduct the meet ing in the manner given by the church discipline. We are expecting one hundred per cent attendance from all the Leagues on the charge. C. W. RUSSELL, Pastor. Church Notice I METHODIST CHURCH C. W. Russell, Pastor Attendance and interest in the re vival at Shiloh is good. The meet ing will run through Sunday night and possibly longer. Regular services will be held at Cox’s Chapel and Potato Creek Sun day. Through the efforts of the Ep worth League at Cox’s Chapel, the pastor’s car was almost filled to ca pacity with a pounding the last night of the revival. Many will be happy to know that Rev. Seymour Taylor, once presid ing elder of this district, will hold the fourth quarterly conference on the charge. It will be held at Piney Creek, September 28, at 3:00 P. M. BAPTIST CHURCH Revival services are in progress at Laurel Springs Baptist church and will continue through Sunday. Rev. J. R Shumate will be with the pas tor after Sunday, and the revival will continue through the greater part of next week. A large crowd attended the ser vices at Sc.^ttville last Sunday at the morning service. After the Sunday School and preaching hour, a group of young ladies carrying flowers, marched in front of the congregation to the cemetery and a brief service preceded the decoration of graves. So, we continue to honor the memory of our friends and loved ones after they go to their reward. - J. L. Underwood, Pastor. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH The public is cordially invited to attend the Presbyterian services to be held at the Baptist church Sun day morning at 11 o’clock. Prayer service will be held Thurs day evening at 8 o’clock at the Bap tist church. The public is cordially invited to attend. REV. O. W. MARSHALL. Relief Expenditures Show Sharpe Decreases Raleigh, N. C., Aug. 23— Total re lief expenditures in North Carolina during July were $585,665, according to a statement made public today by Mrs. Thomas O’Berry, administrator. This sum represents a decrease of approximately 37 per cent as com parde with the $928,468 spent dur ing June. Only $63,000 of July’s expenditures or less than nine per cent, were pro vided by the city and county govern ments involved, the remaining $522, 388 coming from the Federal govern ment. The expenditures for July repre sent a decrease of approximately 56 per cent as compared with the ex penditures for arch which was the high month of the winter. The total outlay for March was $1,323,346. The per family expenditure for North Carolina in July was $9.90, as compared with $9.60 during June. The total amount of relief expendi tures during July, by Alleghany coun ty was $1,311.34. NOTICE TO UNEMPLOYED Topsoiling of the new road from Sparta to Laurel Springs is now un der way. All unemployed, especially those on relif, who want work, are requested to see C. A. Miles at the Relief Office and register at once. ALLEGHANY COUNTY SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION SEP. 3 Indications point to a splendid at tendance of the Annual Alleghany Sunday School convention which will convene in the Glade Valley Presby terian church on Sunday, September 3. There will be two sessions; morn ing and afternoon. A fellowship din ner will be served at the church at the noon hour. It is expected that many of the Sunday Schools of all denominations of the county will have large delegations present. Various phases of the Sunday School work will be discussed in the convention and it is requested that the delegates come prepared to par ticipate in the open forum on New Things Being Done in the Sunday School, Problems To Be Met, The Growth of the School, or any other subject of interest in the Sunday School field. The principal speaker will be Rev. Shuford Peeler, the General Secre tary of the North Carolina Sunday School Association. Other religious leaders will have important parts on the program. A pennant will be given to the school having the largest attendance based on miles traveled. The contest is open to all the Sunday Schools of the County, except the one with which the convention convenes and other schools within a mile of this one. The program is as folows; SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION, (For All Denominations.) Glade Valley Presbyterian Church, Rev. O. W. Marshall, Pastor. Sunday, September S, 1933 Convention theme: “Learn of me— go work.” Morning Session 9.45—Fifteen minute song service, Eev. C. W. Ervin, leader. 10:00—Scripture and prayer—Rev. O. W. Marshall. 10:05—Hymn: “Take Time to be Holy.” 10:10—Ten-minute Talk: “Build Up a Sunday School Spirit,” Rev. C. W. Russell.” 10:20—Chorus singing. 10:30—Address: “The Intellectual and Spiritual Preparation of the S. S. Teacher.”—J. M. Cheek. 10:50—Special Music—Quartette. 10:55—Business session. Taking attendance of Sunday Schools. Report of County Officers. 11:15—Special music—Solo or duet. 11:20—Address: “Why This Teach er Succeeded,” Rev. Shuford Peeler. Salisbury, N. C., State Secretary. Offering for the support of the work. Appointment of committees. 12:10—Benediction. Fellowship Dinner—Everybody Bring A Basket. Afternoon Session. 1:45—Ten-minute Song Service— Rev. J. L. Underwood, leader. 1:55—Prayer. 2:00—Election of officers and oth er business. Music—Visiting Schools. 2:20—Address: “Evangelism in the Sunday School," R. A. Doughton. 2:40—Music—Visiting schools. 2:45—Address: “Down to the Pot ter’s House,” Rev. Shuford Peeler. 3:00—Hymn. 3:05—Open Forum: (New Things You Are Doing.) (Problems.) (Growth and Decline.) (Half minute talks by any one.) Music—Male Quartette. 3:45—Benediction. Note—A pennant will be given to the School having the largest atten dance, based on miles traveled. G. GLENN NICHOLS, Pres., E. B. ELDRIDGE, Sec. HITCH-HIKING AS WE FIND IT Some of our friends have semed to think that our sympathies are too limited because we do not warm up to what is known as hitch-hiking. But why enthuse over a practice that contains the folowing possibilities: A man who was motoring along a country road offered a stranger a lift, i The stranger accepted. Shortly after ward the motorist noticed that his watch was missing. Whipping out a revolver which he happened to be carrying he dug it ' into the other man's ribs and ex claimed: “Hand over that watch!" The stranger mekly complied be fore allowing himself to be booted out of the car. When the motorist returned home he was greeted by his wife. “How did you get on without your watch?” she asked. “I suppose you know that you left it on your dress ing table?”—N. C. Christian Advo I cate. SUPERIOR COURT HERE i WEEK OF SEPT. 25 Many Criminal and Civil I Cases On Calendar. ' Several important cases will be tried at the Septmber trm of Super ior court which convens here Sep tember 25. Both criminal and civil cases will be tried during the week. 1 The case of State vs Gillespie, Ward, and Houck will be retried as to the defendants Gillespie and Ward. All of the defendants were convicted at last September term of robbing | J. E. Vernon of this County, and t were sentenced to from five to seven years in State prison. Houck was ' unable to finance an appeal and was , carried to Raleigh to serve his term. He was recently paroled and will be a witness for the other boys at this term. Doughton and Gambill carried (the appeal of Gillespie and Ward to the Supreme Court and obtained a new trial for them. Much interest is being centered on ! this case, since the defendants are from prominent families in Galax. Other important cases are: State . vs Upchurch, Lane, and Walker, who | were bound over on charge of robbing , John Mabe. The defendant Walker I broke jail and has not yet been ap prehended. State vs Jeff Sanders and Robt. Landreth, who have been bound to . court for assault upon each other with deadly weapons. There are a number of other crimi- ] nal cases and many important civil cases. About ten divorce cases are on docket for trial. It is not expected that the week’s docket will be cleared at this term. Judge J. H. Clement, of Winston Salem, will preside over this term of court. LAUREL SPRINGS WINS FROM SCOTTVILLE A very interesting baseball game was played between Scottville and Laurel Springs Saturday, August 19. The largest score of the season was made, being 17-13 in Laurel Springs’ favor. Only six innings were played on account of rain. The second game scheduled for that day will be played at a later date. The official box score and sum mary is as follows: Scottville Jones, ss., cf., Sheppard, 3b. ss., . Gambille, c., 3b. Sheppard, W. 2b. ... ..... McMillan, E. lf.-p. Black, rf. Evans, lb.. Ab. R. H. Po. 5 2 2 1 Absher, p. Perkins, cf.-p. ... McMillan, K., c. Cox, p.. Laurel Springs Sheets, C. rf. Osborn, J. 3b. Thompson, lb. Bare, 2b. Perry, ss. Craven, c. Pruitt, p. ...... Moxley, cf. Tucker, If. Sheets, H. p. Sheppard, p. Scottville — 5 5 4 3 4 4 2 4 2 1 0 2 2 0 1 2 2 1 1 0 2 1 2 1 1 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 Ab. R. H. Po. 5 4 3 0 5 5 5 5 4 2 4 4 2 4 3 0 0 1 1 1 1 2 3 2 3 2 1 1 1 1 2 0 9 2 1 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 004 225. Laurel Spgs.—220 346. Alleghany Aided 190 Families In July Raleigh, Aug. 19—A decrease of 47 per cent in the number of North Carolina families receiving relief dur ing July as compared with June was revealed today by Mrs. Thomas O’Berry, relief .administrator. The number aided during July was 58, 937 as compared with 92,272 in June. The number given aid during July is 64 per cent below the peak month of March when 164,000 families were on the relief rolls. Mrs. O’Berry atributes this large decrease in North Carolina’s desti tute families to three causes: im proved business conditions; a logical seasonal decline; and because of the fact that 135,000 relief families have been assisted in planting gardens and small farms from which have been derived their food supplies. Alleghany County aided 190 fami lies during July. Cemetery Cleaning All interested persons are request ed to come to the cemetery at Li berty church, Whitehead, Friday A. 1 M., at 8 o’clock, for the purpose of cleaning off the grounds. Bring tools to work with. 1 SUBSCRIBE TO THE TIMES NOW! 1 ALL THE HOME NEWS—$1.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE GRASSY CREEK DOWNS SPARTA LOCALS 3 To 5 Sparta lost a seven inning bal! game to Grassy Creek Saturday by a score of 6 to 5. Each team got nim hits. Grassy Creek bunched their hit in the fifth with some errors an scored all their runs. Edawrds had a perfect day at ba The box score and summary is as follows: Sparta Reeves . Nichols, . Edwards, . Joines, .. Bryan . Thompson . Gentry . Moxley . Reeves Grassy Creek Young, .. Blevins .. Jones .. Francis . Spencer . Graybeal . Sturgill . Pierce .. Gambill . Ab. R. H. J.4 1 2 ..4 1 1 .4 1 4 .4 1 1 .4 0 1 .3 0 0 ...3 0 0 ..2 0 0 .2 1 0 Ab. R. H. .4 0 0 .4 1 2 .3 1 0 *.4 1 1 .3 1 1 .3 1 2 .3 0 2 .3 0 0 .4 1 1 Base on balls, Reeves one, Gam bill three, Francis one. Struck out by Reeves 9, Gambill 6, Franics 5. Hits off Reeves, 9; off Gambill 7 in five innings; Francis 2 in two innings. Sparta will play Grassy Creek at Sparta Saturday, at 3:30 P. M. A double header is expected to be play ed. Scottville vs. Laurel Springs at Laurel Springs, Saturday. Twin Oaks and Piney Creek will cross bats at Piney Creek Saturday evening, August 2Gth, at 3 o’clock. Everybody invited. Fair Tax Association Has Right Name The most significant and important event that transpired in North Caro olina on August 1 was the organiza tion of the Fair Tax Association. If the people of the State hav not lost interest in the justice, particularly with respect to taxation, this asso ciation will become a powerful factor in our political and economic life. The association has the right name. The thing that every good citizen that is, a system under which nobody should desire is a fair tax system— share of the expense of government will pay more than his proportionate and under which nobdy will pay less than his proportionate part of the amount required to maintain the va rious functions and agencies of good government. The association has the right name because its first objective is to abol ish the general sales tax in North Carolina. If there is anything that is unfair to the masses of the people, the general sales tax is that thing. The first duty of a Fair Tax Associa tion manifestly is to fight unfair taxes. The association was fortunate, too, we think, in its selection of an exe cutive director, upon whose efforts the success of the organization will very largely depend. J. Paul Leonard long ago demonstrated his ability as an organizer and can be relied upon to give a good account of himself in this enterprise. He has been fight ing the sales tax in North Carolina for years. With the cooperation of the con sumers, who pay this tax, and of the law to collect it, Mr. Leonard and the merchants, who are forced under the officers associated with him will have an efficient organization in every county in the State within six months. This will mean, of course, a real fight in every county and senatorial district next spring, the outcome of which will determine the complexion of the next legislature. For it might as well be understood now, as later, that the only way the North Carolina Fair Tax Association can fight the sales tax effectively is to nominate Assembly—both Senate and House— and elect members of the General who will devise a tax system for this commonwealth which will not include a sales tax. In the meantime—that is this sum mer and next fall and winter—the Fair Tax Association, of course, will not fail to conduct a campaign of publicity designed to keep the aver age citizen in every county in the State thoroughly informed on the amount of sales tax he and his coun ty are paying this year.—Editorial in Winston-Salem Journal, Aug. 3, 1933. MARRIAGE ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Sanders, of Stratford, N. C., announce the mar riage of their daughter, Maxie No rine, to Mr. Rex Chas. Wagoner, of Mouth of Wilson, Va., August 18, at Independence, Va. Rev. L. F. Funk officiating. $100 REWARD OFFERED FOR SAFE AND PAPERS STOLEN RECENTLY. Jobbers Break Into Store of J. W. Blevins Near Hare, N. C. was loaded on the car. Robbers broke into the store of J. before it 7. Blevins near Hare Wednesday ght of last week and carried away safe containing $157 in money and , many valuable papers. Entrance was effected by drawing the staple of the padlock and using skeleton key on regular lock. Change from the cash drawer was taken, but no other arti cles from the store were missing. The safe was rolled down the road Local officers investigated the rob bery but could find no clues as to the identity of the robbers. Mr. Blevins took over $500 out of the safe the day before the robbery. 'It is thought that the thieves must have known of the large sum in the safe and planned to make a big haul. The car was tracked to the highway, but the tire tread offered no clues. TEACHERS NAMED FOR SPARTA SCHOOL DIST. Teachers for the remaining schools in the Sparta District were elected by the Committee at a meeting Sat urday morning. Teachers for the Sparta school have been announced in a previous issue of The Times. Teachers in the other districts will be,announced as soon as elected and approved. Teachers for the schools are as follows: Glade Valley—G. G. Nichols. Toliver—Cora Lee Gambill. Irwin—Emmette Evans. Pine Swamp—C. G. Fende|\ Air Bellows—Muriel Caudill. Whitehead—Mrs. Carrie Fender and Miss Reba Caudill. Liberty Knob—Edna Gentry. Stratford—Hugh Choate. Chestnut Grove—Garnet Edwards. Wolf Branch—Mr. and Mrs. Silas Nichols. New Hope—Betty Joines. TENNESSEE TO CELEBRATE MEMORIES OF PIONEERS Greenville, Tenn. Aug. 16—A gaunt man with a hoe and an axe and a gun—and a dog—came over the Carolina mountains 200 years ago, hitched his horse to a sycamore and began the conquest of Tennessee. Tomorrow this city and its neigh bors will begin the sesqui-centennial celebration of the founding of a highland dominion, where men were so valiant they were called “the Volunteers” and so loyal to their cov enants that they fought their own brothers rather than sacrifice a prin ciple. The story of the coming of Wil liam Bean and the Carolina clans men will be told here in pageantry and song. The celebration will last two days, for it’s a long story from Daniel Boone to Muscle Shoals. There will be street parades and dances and speeches. Here came John Sevier over the hills with a new doctrine of liberty and the courage to die for it. Here in east Tennessee was founded the Wautauga association— the first Democratic government in the new world, conceived by isolated pioneeds. Word reached the outpost that a new nation had been born and that colonists were •'’at war with the motherland. They already had a gov ernment out here, but the men loved a fight so they gathered in Happy Valley and trudged over the passes to King’s Mountain. The pageant will show a pano rama of romantic history from the Cherokees to the era of Muscle Shoals. Sevier and his lost State of Frank lin—the growing of corn—the massa cres—Andrew Jackson practising law in the wilderness—“Remember the Alamo, remember Goliad" — Davy Crockett in buckskins—“Be sure you are right then go ahead”—Jackson asking troops to fight the British— the Volunteer state that won the Battle of New Orleans — Andrew Johnson patching pants in his tailor shop here. The martyrdom of Crockett— The march to Mexico. The spread of an agrarian culture.— The rise of abo litionists in this land where slavery was a hated institution. Secession — troops of hill clansmen marching away to fight for the union while their midland brothers became their enemies. Johnson, the Tennessee tailor — facing impeachment — his return home reconstruction even in a land that had been loyal—the pass ing of the agrarian culture — the transfer pf power from the furrow to the store till and the industrial ist’s pay window. The Taylor brothers and their dogs and fiddle — The “War of the Roses” — the conquest of the Tennessee—Muscle Shoals. Factory smoke writes a new alphabet over the valley- the promise of a new order of things. Mrs. C. A. Doughton, and Mr. and Mrs. Burton Doughton visited Mr. and Mrs. Guy Cox at Chilhowie, Va., last week. AGED STRATFORD WOMAN PASSES Large Crowd Attends Funeral At Antioch Church. Mrs. Sallie Estep died at her home near Stratford last Tuesday, August 15. She was 83 years old, had been sick for about two months, but was confined to her bed only three days. She had lived a long useful life and had a host of friends to mourn her passing. She was generally found at home to welcome all that came to visit in the home. Her place in the home and community cannot be fill ed, for she was kind, gentle and hos pitable to her family and neighbors. The funeral was conducted from Antioch church Wednesday, August 16, by Elders J. M. Williams and J. R. Tolliver, in the presence of a very large crowd and the remains were laid to rest in the nearby cemetery. She leaves a husband, H. D. Estep, one brother, Granville Billings, and five children: Mrs. Alice Crouse, Dar lington, Md.; Mrs. Matt Irwin, Strat ford; D. R. Step, of Nebraska; J, M. and H. L. Estep, of Stratford, be sides several grandchildren and other relatives that will miss her kindness. All the children except D. R. Estep were at the funeral. The long dis tance from Nebraska here prevented him from attending the funeral. The active pallbearers were: S. C. Richardson, J. F. Atwood, R. V. Thompson, C. G. Fender, T. A. Fen der, and L. E. Edwards. The flower girls were: Mrs. Flora Moxley, Thelma Mabe, Bessie Mox ley, Ethel Reynolds, Zora Irwin and Miss Lillie Billings. NEW BANK OPEN AT ELKIN The bank of Elkin opened Tuesday of last week with deposits exceeding $40,000 and withdrawals less than $200 Business concerns and citizens of Elkin have ben handicapped for some time because the town had no banking facilities, and now that the new bank has had such an auspicious opening, people generally are rejoi cing. R. C. Lewellyn, president and cash ier, announced that the opening ex ceeded his fondest hopes and expec tations, and expressed his sincere appreciation to the citizens of Elkin and vicinity for their cooperation and confidence. It was pointed out that withdraw als, which totaled $174, represented only two accounts, one of which amounted to $167 and the other to $7.00. From the time of the opening a steady stream of depositors filed by the teller's windows, making big deposits and small as an expression of their confidence in the bank and faith in its officials. At a meeting of the stockholders held late Monday afternoon, the following men were elected as direc tors: J. R. Poindexter, chairman, Avery leaves, C. S. Foster, R. C. Freeman, Thomas M. Roth, W. S. Gough and R. C. Lewellyn. Immediately following the stock holders’ meeting, the newly elected directors met and confirmed the se lection of R. C. Lewellyn as president and cashier; W. S. Gough as vice president, and Garland Johnson as assistant cashier. The Bank of Elkin was organized with a working capital of $25,000 and an authorized capital of $100,00. Paid in surplus amounts to $12,500. The stock is owned by the people of Elkin and vicinity and the bank is in ever , sense a home bank. Bank ig hours are from 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. Picnic at Choate Mountain Those enjoying a picnic Sunday on Choate’s Mountain were: Mr. and and Mrs. Aral Choate and daughter, Mrs. Loyd Absher and daughter, Mr. Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Absher and grand children, Mrs. Martha Absher, Mrs. Charlie Kilby, Messrs. Foster Absher and J. L. Richardson; Misses Rousia, Ethel and Bertrice Absher, Ilene Kilby. EVERYBODY!—LET’S GO! FOR THE BEST FAIR ALLEGHANY EVER HAD—“ITS COMING!”