[ Mrs. Ed Perkins, of Roanoke, visit ed her sister, Mrs. C. W. Higgins, last week. Mrs. Margaret Crowe, of Miami, Fla., has returned home after a visit to her neice, Mrs. George Cheek. Mrs. J. H. Doughton and sister, Mrs. Dew, have returned from New York where they attended the mar riage of their sister. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Cheek were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Sanders of Chilhowie, Va., last week. Miss Reba Doughton was a visitor in town last week. Mrs. Arvin Edwards, of Maryland, is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Beale Poole. Mr. Robert Edwards spent the week-end with his family here. Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Berry visited friends in North Wilkesboro Sunday. Congressman R. L. Doughton was a business visitor in town Monday. Mr. N. B. Smithey visited friends in town Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Purvis Lee visited Mrs. Lee’s parents, Mr. and Mrs Lester Irwin Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Holder, of Ga lax, Va., spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Blevins. Mr. S. A. Holder died at his home near Hooker Sunday night. The Ladies Missionary Society oi the Methodist church will meet witl Mrs. Lola White Friday afternoor. September 15, at 2:30 o’clock . Misses Mildred and Jean Perkins Elizabeth Smith and Elizabeth Bry ant of Independence, Va., visited Mis: i ifary Cecil Higgins Sunday. Master Boothe Reid, of High Point bps been visiting his sister, Mrs. C w. Russell. Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Carson, whc ive been spending the summer a! ack Bear Inn and have been fre ent visitors in town, left Wednefl ,y for their home in Whiteville. Mrs. Frank Fields, who has beei mding the summer here, returnee her home in Alabama Mondayy. Miss Clyde Fields left Monday tc lume her duties as superintendent a school in Statesville. Mr. and Mrs. George Edd Carsoi id little daughter, Ann, left for Ten Saturday where they wil' ke their home. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fields and fami who have been visiting here, have umed to their home in Alabama iss Ellen Guerrant, member oi de Valley faculty, was a visitoi town Saturday. rs. A. L. Baker, of Galax, Va. iited relatives and friends in towr. it week. . Joe Combs, of Ennice, and Mis. ta Higgins, daughter of Mr. anc s. Clark Higgins, of Hooker, were ied in town Saturday. „r. Kemp Rector, of Galax, Va., nt the week-end with his parents . and Mrs. A. L. Rector. Mrs. Dema Bledsoe and daughter, kfiss Sallie, attended the Association 1t Roans Creek Sunday. Mr. Bower Hoppers is spending the k- with Mr. Kemp Rector in Ga , Va. rs. Jones Wingate, of Indepen ce, Va., is the guest of her daugh Mrs. Dewey Sturdivant, rs. Will Pugh, of Whitehead, if proving after going to Gastonia foi atment. rs. Cora Lee Johnson, of Turkej ob, was a visitor in town Monday rs. Glenn Combs went to Char te last week for treatment. r. and Mrs. J. K. Andrews were itors in town Saturday. Rev. and Mrs. E. G. Jordan anc and Mrs. A. D. McCoin, all oi in, visited Rev. Jordan’s sister, s. L. V. Joines, of Whitehead, Sun afternoon. Mr. F. G. Fields, who has been vi ing in Wilkes and Ashe Counties, •turned to his home in Alabama ^onday. Mr. Fields, while here was supervisor of the road work from 6parta to Piney Creek. The following were recent callers Mt the home of A. O. Joines, of Strat rd: Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smither an, Mrs. W. A. Martin, Mr. John icholson, and Misses Pauline Mar and Grace Hayes, of East Bend. Prof, and Mrs. A. O. Joines and femily returned to East Bend, N. C. Monday, where Mr. Joines will re sume his duties as superintendent #f the local school. Friends of Mrs. Cecil Bumgarner will be glad to know that she is im proving. * Mrs. Glenn Warden, who has been in the Baptist hospital at Winston Salem for an operation, has returned home very much improved. .Mrs. W. C. Johnson, of Statesville, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. A. P. Bd wards. Dr. and Mrs. J. L. Dough ton at tended the funeral of Mrs. Doughton’s brother-in-law, Mr. J. H. Ratledge, of Mocksville, last Thursday. The de ceased was a brother of Revs. John T. Ratledge and Arthur Ratledge, who was formerly stationed at Elkin. LOCAL NEWS IN TABLOID — Sheriff McMilland and R. G. Gentry returned from Maryland Fri day with William Todd, who had been apprehended by authorities in Mary land. Todd is charged with burglary near Hare. He was placed in jail here to await trial during the September court. —Jay Hardin has requested that all teachers who want books for school children give a list of these books to him and he will be glad to order the books. He wants to give all the assistance possible in getting the schools supplied with needed books as early as possible. —The Reins-Sturdivant Funeral Home of Sparta recently purchased a new Henny combination funeral coach and ambulance. It is one of the latest models, up-to-date in every respect. It has a dark blue body with black fenders and is finished inside with lustrous blue velvet. It contains a comfortable cot for ambulance ser vice. It is powered with a new eight cylinder Pontiac motor. —Mr. Ulus Irvin has reopened the business formerly known as Ray’s Cafe on Main street. He has an an nouncement in The Times this week to that effect and states this: “All former customers of the place may expect to get the usual courteous service.” —judge ana Mrs. uscar u. nmra, and Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Hine, of Winston-Salem, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Thompson Sunday. —While on a trip to Maryland and Pennsylvania last week R. D. Gentry Duke Bledsoe and Sheriff McMillan attended an American League game between Philadelphia and Cleveland at Philadelphia on Wednesday. On rhursday they visited Sheriff Mc Millan’s brother, Charlie McMillan, at Oxford, Pa. —B. and T. Drug Co. has received national publicity in a little story published in a trade magazine which circulates among druggists through out the U. S. The story follows: “Can /ou imagine the honesty of the cus tomer, who, having received from B. md T. Drug Co., Sparta, N. C., a re und on a corn solvent which he claimed was inefficient, returned the money two days later because the corn had disappeared.” MOUNT ZION~NEWS Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Jones, Carrie Mattie and Edna Rae Smith, and Jeorgie Cox visited at S. E. Smith’s ast week. Mrs. Laura Pugh visited at Troy Pugh’s Sunday. Claude J. Smith attended the pre entation of the play ‘Son John’ at jlade Valley Saturday night. H. Clay Smith, Howard Smith, and Edison Fields made a business trip to Soaring Gap Clinic Sunday. Claude J. Smith visited at Clay Smith’s Sunday. Edison Fields left Sunday for El an where he will attend school. While ;here he will stay with his uncle and lunt, Mr. and Mrs. E. F. McNeer. Eugene Black and daughters visit ed Mr. and Mrs. George Black Sun day. Mr. and Mrs. H. Clay Smith made i business trip to Independence, and Sparta Saturday. Minnie Paisley and son, who have been spending some time with Mrs. Paisley’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Cox, returned to their home in De troit, Mich., recently. J. F. Shepherd made a business trip o Sparta Saturday. Allen Mabe returned home Thurs lay from jthe Hugn Chatham Memor al hospital at Elkin very much im jroved. Mrs. S. E. Smith and Claude J. Smith visited at W. H. Weaver’s Sun lay. Mrs. H. Clay Smith visited Mrs. rfallie Douglas near Piney Creek ast Friday. Mrs. S. E. Smith visited Mrs. Sara Williams Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Troy Pugh and Miss Ethel Pugh visited D. P. Allison at Statesville last week. They also visit id in Kannapolis. Mrs. Zetta Pugh visited her daugh :er, Mrs. Hallie Douglas, a few days ast week. Mr. and Mrs. Hicks Hash are visit ing Mrs. Hash’3 relatives in the com munity. George Smith visited his mother, Mrs. Rebecca Smith, Sunday after noon. Mary Cox visited Ida Shepherd one day last week. Chas. W. Cox visited J. Paul Allen Sunday. Ethel Pugh visited Mrs. George F. Smith Sunday. Several from here attended the play at Scottville Monday night. Cherrylane-Hare Road To Be Surfaced The County Relief Office placed fourteen men to work Monday on the road from Cherrylane to Hare. There will be about 30 free laborers, citi zens of the immediate section served by the road, to help load and unload the rock. This project will give the people of that section a good gravel road. It is expected that the work will be completed in a short time. Miss Irene Reeves left today for Greensboro where she will enter N.C. C.W. N. C. TO VOTE ON PROHI BITION AMENDMENT NoU TO THE CITIZENS OP NORTH CAROLINA: On November 7th, 1933, the people of North Carolina are called upon to vote on the question of repealing the 18th amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The General Assembly of North Carolina submit ted this question to the people of our State in the form of “Convention or no Convention” to which delegates are to be elected upon the basis of representation of each county in the lower House of the General Assem bly. These delegates to be voted for at the same time the question of con vention or no convention is voted on. Thus there are two ballots to be voted in each of the counties, and each delegate so elected must cast his vote in the Convention in accordance with the vote by which he or she was elected. There will be one hun dred and twenty (120) delegates in the convention, each county being re presented as it is represented in the House of Representatives; some coun ties such as Mecklenburg, Forsyth, Guilford and Wake will have three (3) delegates each. A number of counties will have two (2) delegates and each county will have at least one (1) delegate. These delegates will be elected on a ticket “For Re peal” or “Against Repeal,” in other words if a county votes against re peal its delegate or delegates in the convention will vote to sustain the 18th Amendment and keep it a part of the Constitution. If a county votes for repeal its delegates will vote to take the 18th Amendment out of the Federal Constitution. Any elector holding an official po sition either State or Federal, can offer for delegate, holding office is no bar to being a delegate in the Con vention; any person desiring to be a candidate for delegate shall file notice thirty (30) days before the election with the County Board of Election, declaring he or she is “For The Re peal of the 18th Amendment,” or “Against the Repeal of the 18th Amendment,” supported by a written petition signed by qualified voters of the county equal in number to two per cent of the total vote cast for Governor in said county in the guber natorial election of 1932. Those offering for delegates “For Repeal” or “Against Repeal” shall be selected by the County Board of Elec tion (when there are more offering for delegates than the county is en ittled to in the convention) the per son having the largest number of signers on the petition in counties having one delegate and the persons who have the greatest number of signers in counties entitled to more than one delegate shall be the dele 1 gate or delegates in either case, to be voted for in said election. There will be but one degistration day, that to be on the 24th day of October, on which day persons who have moved from one precinct to an other are entitled to registrar. No absentee ballots will be permitted. The County Board of Election shall choose and select one Judge of Elec tion known to favor “Repeal of the 18th Amendment” and one Judge who is not in favor of the Repeal of the 18th Amendment. No markers or asistants are al lowed in said election. Any voter phy sically unable to enter a booth or to m.irk a ballot may be assisted in en tering such booth anjj in marking the ballot by the election official upon whom the voter calls for assistance The election shall be held under the general election laws of North Caro lina, except in the provisions enum erated above. The election will be se cret as is provided under the laws of North Carolina. The State Board of Elections' will supply the ballots for. “Convention and no Convention” and each County Board of Elections wifi supply the ballots for delegates to "the voters of their several counties. If a majority of votes cast in said election shall be “No Convention” then t^ere shall be no Convention, if the votes are to be contrary then the Contention shall meet. The pay of the delegates shall be the sum of ten dollars ($10.00) each, and the mileage to and from Raleigh. The Convention should not sit more than one day and cannot performI any act except to vote u£on the ‘•‘Re War Veterans To Register For Conservation Camps Word was received here Friday from the Veterans Administrative Bureau, Charlotte, giving the Alle ghany County Relief Office permis sion to enroll a few World War vet erans for the government Conserva tion Camps. Any who are interested in enrolling should see me at once, as these applications have to be in Char lotte within the next few days. C. A. MILES, Director of Relief. peal of the 18th Amendment.” There will be no new registration, those electors who are entitled to re gister by reason of coming of age can register. BIRDS OF ALLEGHANY CO. HABITS OF THE WILSON SNIPE (By Claude J. Smith.) Near my home this esteemed game bird is seldom seen, but I have evi dence of its being found at several places in the county, which I believe will warrant it a place among the common birds of the county. This is one of our most interesting birds, ar riving from Southern N. S. in March and staying until July or August. No evidence of a nest of this bird has been presented, but it is seen during each month while with us, so I am led to believe that it breeds in the county sparingly. This queer bird may be observed near open brooks *r along marshy places, out of the woods Mr. Emmett Evans, of Stratford, re ports five or six of these birds near his home in a wet meadow. Possibly a description of this bird would be of help; it has long heavy bill, large eyes placed near the top of the head, plum age striped, varigated, and barred black, brown and white. In flight, the white forms barrs across the wing3. The three outer wing feathers pro duce a sharp harsh whistle in flight. This whistle is often the only indica tion of their presence. They dart out from under your feet and wing their way out of sight, pursuing a zigzag course. The feeding habits of this bird are very peculiar. It probes in soft ground with its bill for insects; the tip of the bill is flexible thereby en abling the bird to grasp its food when felt. I have seen several of these feed ing places, which can be told by sev eral small holes bored in the soft earth close .together. I hope that gun ners Will refrain from shooting this splendid game bird at least until it becomes more commonly found in the county. FOR SALE—Abruzzi Seed Rye. See Bert L. Hollowly, Sparta, N. C. 2t-Sep. 7-pd. NOTICE The Edwards Transportation Bus will leave West. Jefferson via Sparta for Bel Air, Md., on Sept. 22nd, at 7 o’clock a. m. Fare $8 one way, $14 I round trip. For information write: W. Bert Edwards, Darlington, Md. tf. FOR SALE—Blank Notes, 6 for 5c, 12 for 10c, 25 for 15c, 50 for 25c, 100 for 50c. At The Times Office. FOR SALE—6 room house and one acre of land; good orchard, good water; reasonable price. Small down payment, terms. A. V. Millsaps, Glade Valley, N. C. 2t-pd. DR. M. A R0YALL, Elkin, N. 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Chevrolet has earned the reputation of being the world’s most economic?1! car, but after all, it was Chevrolet’s /bo first screed the good word CHEVROLET Castevens Motor Co. SPARTA, NORTH COROLINA I Have a Complete Line of FALL —AND— WINTER Merchandise SEE ME FOR —Ladies Ready-to-Wear —Piece Goods —SHOES for men, women and children. —HATS for men, women, and children. —Sweaters —Raincoats —Men’s Clothing —School Supplies —School Books —GROCERIES of all kinds Bring me your produce, chickens, eggs, butter, dried apples, etc. When in town make my store your headquarters. : _§_ - ay Hardin THE HOME STORE” Sparta, N. C. BUY AT HOME! Globe BATTERIES 12 MONTHS WRITTEN GUA RANTEE $4.50 to 5.90 Alleghany Motor Sales, Sparta, N. C.

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