THE ALLEGHANY TIMES
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Published Every Thursday
Entered as Second-class matter at
the Post-office in Sparta, N. C.
ERWIN D. STEPHENS,.. Editor
The frost is on the pumpkin and the
coal dealer is smiling.
We’ll excuse the felow who thought
NRA stood for Night Riding Annies.
The fellows who used to sing,
“Good-bye whiskey, good-bye gin, say
Mr. Wilson, when’s it coming back
agin ?” will soon find an answer to
their query.
Alleghany farmers deserve credit
for their activities in diversified farm
ing. No bread lines here as long as
farmers fill their cellars with such
products as were exhibited at the
fair.
Fair officials are due a vote of
thanks for their untiring efforts to
make the. fair- a success. The details
to be planned, worked out, and finan
ced in putting on a fair are legion,
but so well was everything arranged
and carried out, criticism and com
plaints were few. That is an excellent
showing in an undertaking which in
volved so many people.
We can now understand how Alle
ghany is able to send so many citi
zens to Maryland and to the western
states. The fine lot of thrifty young
sters at the baby show speaks well
for the future citizenship of the coun
ty.
Farmers in eastern North Carolina
spen $450,000 for seed potatoes, im
ported mainly from the North, Alle
ghany has a climate and soils suit
able for growing seed potatoes equal
to or superior to those grown in nor
thern states If enough farmers in the
county could be interested in grow
ing certified seed potatoes in quanti
ties large enough to supply eastern
growers, much of this huge sum of
money sent to northern growers an
nually would find a nesting place
muchnear er home.
A recent news report states that
oranges are now being grown on the
east coast of North Carolina, which
is warmed by the Gulf stream. Wp
shall expect to hear next of Eskimos
living on top of Mt. Mitchell, which
is chilled by cold winter winds.
THE SAFE DRIVERS’ CODE
There is one badly needed code
which will not have to await an offi
cial signature. It affects every per
son in the country, and its adoption
should be unanimous. It is “The Safe
Drivers’ Code.”
Accident statistics reported to June
30, 1933, according to the National
Bureau of Casualty and Surety Un
derwriters, showed that 12,920 per
sons had been killed by automobiles
this year. The indications, judging
from unofficial reports in July and
August ,are that final results may
show a decided increase in deaths
and accidents for 1933. This is dou
bly significant, because there are
nearly 10 per cent fewer automobiles
registered in the United States this
year than in 1931.
To motorists, therefore, and to pe
destrians and all users of our streets
and highways, the following code is
directed:
1. Regulate your speed to fit traf
fic conditions; keep your car under
coritrol at all times.
2. Slow down for intersections, and
obey traffic signals.
3. Use better judgment in passing,
waiting until there is at least 500 feet
of clear distance ahead.
4. Pedestrians: Cross at crosswalks
and walk on the left side facing traf
fic; obey traffic signals.
5. Remember that automobile acci
dents constitute an economic waste
totaling billions, through property
damage, high insurance costs, in
creased taxes, etc.
Every motorist should feel that it
is his duty and privilege to pledge
himself to this code.
A few months ago inflation was the
subject of the hour. Then it moved
off the stage and other actors in the
recovery play took its place. It’s com
ing back again now. Some observers
believe that it is inevitable in the
near future; it is known that the pre
sident has been studying ways and
means to bring it about and control
it. A great many businesses are still
as far away as they ever were from
the usual resources of new credit,
and they’ve got to get money some
where if they are going to be instru
ments in the job-providing, wage
raising drive. Start of an inflationary
program is seen in the announcement
that the Federal Reserve, using the
power granted to it a short time ago,
has been a heavy buyer of govern
ment bonds— ^loing this is an easy
means of expanding public credit.
The answer to this question, as to
so many others, is solely in the mind
of Mr. Roosevelt. Congress gavehim,
at his demand, practically unlimited
power over the currency. He has used
that power cautiously to date.
MY SOLITAIRE
(By A. P. E.)
_ _
A silence permeates the atmosphere
... a moon, by chance the one Kate
Smith very ably assists over the
mountain, is lazily rising ... a
mountainous horizon is illuminated
in the distance . an occasional Mat
ing of cattle in the oiling, intersper
sed with a dog’s bark from yonder
hillside . . . enshrouds our meekness
of “WHAT A NIGHT?” Autumn days
are by far the sadess part of the yeai
—however, they are the days of days
in our interpretation. Frost on the
pumpkin, corn in the shock, and a
winters living in the smokehouse
that denotes “living at home”—like
nobody’s business. And as we think
of this picture localized in Aleghany
county, only a short while ago some
thing was intimated about a depres
sion. Here there is nothing lacking
in consequence that would lend a se
| quel to hard times, for farmers in
this county endure hardship of grow
ing that which pertains to their daily
needs and helps a long way toward
“keeping the wolf away from the
door”—just about as independent set
of folks we know of. And if you were
witness on the farm products display
ed at the fair last week, this fact
corroborates itself to the casual ob
server.
Speaking of one thing and other,
the agricultural fair did itself proud
insofar as the exhibits were concern
ed, for what we have seen this fall
in the way of fairs, does not quite
coincide with the quality of Alle
ghany fair exhibits. Either somebody
planted their stuff in the moon—and
know their onions when it comes to
farming—for there was an array of
agricultural products typical of the
great Piedmont section of the State.
The first chisler of note insofar as
the NRA working code is concerned,
hereabouts, was a fellow who obtain
ed an absolute judgment of divorce
in open court one day—and got mar
ried the next. Suey!
SomeSpartagirlstalksjustlikethis. .
and never worry.
As a remorse to our kindred and
kind—the fellowless clan—habitual to
a mode we see and like—we borrow
a thought from a contemporary, to
wit: “But the Good Lord figured out
a plan ’way back in the beginning .
that, regardless of death, life must
go on . . . that regardless of tears,
smiles must break through the vale
of sorrow like sunshine after the rain
. . . that regardless of heartache and
heartbreak, man just has to put on a
“face,” throw his head between his
shoulders . . and laugh.” And to no
other source than “a guy in the street’
we dedicate this, for he proved to us
the best friend we ever had, however
unknown to us at the time.
Woman Makes Living At
Roadside Stand Below Mtn.
At the foot of the Blue Ridge on
LJ. S. Highway 21, near one of the
most beautiful scenic spots in the
Appalachians, Julia Billings earns
her living by selling fruits to passing
tourists. Four years ago she began
her business with small baskets of
fruit placed side by side on a board
supported by two stones, and since
then through the heat of summer
and winter’s cold she has displayed
her products to the traveling public.
Ten years ago her husband died.
All of her five children are married.
With this business her only means
of support, she spends seven or eight
hours a day at her post. On Satur
days and Sundays business is fairly
good, but on week days her total
sales are usually small. Last year,
with the exception of a few cold,
rough days, she stayed at her post
all winter.
During the four years she has
waited on thousands of customers,
and with a very few exceptions all
have been very nice and courteous to
her. According to her own statement,
tourists from a distance “are the
nicest people you ever saw.”
Travelers descending the Blue
Ridge from Roaring Gap carry in
their memories a picture of a little
old woman hawking her wares at a
roadside stand at the foot of the
mountain.
NEWS FROM LAKE LURE
C.C.C. CAMP P-1
Mr. John Plott, State Forest Ran
ger, spent Saturday and Sunday at
his home in Haywood county.
Messrs. Boss Jones and Joe Hiatt,
of Mt. Airy, and Mr. M. F. Richard
son, of Glade Valley, were week-end
visitors at their respective home3
Saturday and Sunday.
Mr. Dickinson expects to stay at
home about two weeks.
Louis Burton and W. C. Ward vi
sited friends and relatives at Mt.
Airy Saturday and Sunday.
Work is progressing fine at Pinna
cle Side Camp P-61. The carpenter
gang are busy flooring the tents in
preparations for cold weather.
The men at the camp were issued
their overcoats last week, and they
come in handy these cold mornings.
Maj. John Kline, commander of
Pinnacle Side Camp, made a week
end trip to Charlotte Friday evening.
Messrs. Arthur Drummond and ‘Slick’
Hammel accompanied him.
Rev. and Mrs. C. W. Russell spent
Wednesday in North Wilkesboro at a
meeting called by the Elder Rev.
Mangum.
DOUGHTON SEEKS
TAX ADJUSTMENT
Washington, Oct. 7.-(AP)-Although
the opening of congress is still mon
ths away, Representative Doughton,
North Carolina’s democratic chair
man of the Ways and Means Commit
tee, is hard at work on plans lOoking
to a readjustment of the tax laws.
Doughton, tall, bald, and to the
point, doesn’t like what he calls the
“nuisance” taxes and doesn’t mind
saying so. Furthermore,he thinks re
peal of the 18th amendment is “in
evital” and he wants the government
to be prepared to tax alcoholic li
quors.
So, out of this combination, has
grown a determination to completely
revise internal revenue laws so as to
remove the nuisance taxes and im
pose an “equitable” tax on whiskey.
As a start ni this direction, Rep
resentative Sam Hill, a Washington
Democrat, has been placed at the
head of a sub-committee to work out
a proposed revision. This committee,
of which Doughton is a member,
will spend November in formulating
a report to be made about December
1, to the full committee.
“Repeal of the 18th amendment ap
pears inevitable,” Doughton said,
“and we will give that more complete
consideration later on. I am satisfied
the present tax of $1.10 a gallon on
whiskey will be increased but we do
not know how much yet.
“We don’t want to make it too high
as that would tend to encourage boot
legging and we don’t want to make it
too low because the government
would not get its proper share.”
Turning to nuisance taxes imposed
by the last congress, Doughton said
he was particularly anxious to get rid
of the stamp tax on bank check and
the gasoline tax, if a balanced budget
can be maintained with their removal.
“We want to find some way to get
rid of these nuisance taxes,” he said.
“There is no sound basis for them
and they are irritating and unfair.
“In the last congress, we had to do
something and do it quickly tobalance
the budget. I think the committee
realizes these taxes were hastily en
acted in a period of emergency and
should be removed if possible.
“We hope, also, to stop up some of
the gaps in other laws and get taxes
from some of those persons who have
been evading them. In fact, we con
template a general revision and re
adjustment of the entire revenue set
up.”
Doughton is also anxious to see the
two-cent stamp on first class mail re
turned but said President Roosevelt
now has power to order this if postal
receipts should justify it.
Tasty Meat Loaf For
Church Supper
When the church club needs a little
extra money in the treasury, it is a
popular adventure to plan a supper
and entertainment. Meat loaf is a
very acceptable and appropriate dish
for such an occasion.
Here is a recipe for meat loaf with
tomato sauce in quantity for 50 peo
ple. Inez S. Wilson, home economist,
vouches for its deliciousness.
10 pounds ground beef
5 pounds ground pork.
6 eggs
4 cups bread crumbs
Milk to moisten (about 1 quart)
*4 pound onions, chopped
% cup salt
Pepper
Have beef and pork ground togeth
er. Mix the salt, pepper, breadcrumbs
and onions with the meat. Beat the
eggs slightly and add to the milk.
Combine with the meat and mix thor
oughly. Measure or weigh out into
well-greased loaf-pans. Bake in a mo
derate over (350 degree F.) until
done, from one to two hours, depen
ding upon the sizes of the loaves.
Serve with tomato sauce.
Tomato Sauce
2 No. 2% cans tomatoes
Few celery leaves
% cup chopped carrots
1 tablespoon onion
1 bay-leaf
3 tablespoons chopped parsley
V2 cup fat
V2 cup flour
2 teaspoons salt
2 tablespoons sugar
Add the vegetables and seasoning
to the tomatoes, and simmer for 10
minutes. Strain and stir slowly into
fat and flour which have been blended
together. Season well and serve over
the meat loaf with just a small
amount of grated cheese over it.
Scaloped or creamed potatoes al
ways go well with meat loaf and they
are easy to prepare and serve for the
large group.
Ain’t human nature wonderful? A
month or so ago North Carolinians
were cussing the sales tax. Then they
cussed the State School Commission
because it couldn’t get enough of that
tax to ride all the younguns to school.
We wonder what it will be next.
Humpty-dumpty drove like heck.
Humpty-dumpty had a great wreck.
All the state’s doctors and hospital
men
Qin’t put Humpty-dumpty together
again.
During an English lesson in a city
school the teacher asked if any pupil
could make up a sentence containing
the words defense, defeat, and detail.
A little colored boy held up his hand
and answered, “When a cat jumps
over defence, defeat goes over in front
of detail.”—Ex.
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LADIES’ ALL-SILK FULL
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MEN’S SUITS
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SMITHEY’S! We have just shipped a solid truckload of
chickens north. It was said to te the nicest truck load of poultry
that has ever left the county .because of the large number of
Plymouth Rock chickens it contained. We advise people of the
county to raise Plymouth Rocks. We have about 30 blood-tested
pure-bred Barred Rock Roosters for sale at 75 cents each.
GROCERY DEPARTMENT
Fancy Rice...'M/2c, 1b.
Loose Oatmeal,..4c. 1b.
2 lbs. PURE COFFEE,.,.....25c.
OATMEAL,.5c. Box
Pepper.20c. tb.
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SPARTA = SMITHEYS STORE north CAROLINA
(If Mrs. M. A. Higgins, of Ennice, will present a clipping of this ad at our store, we will give her 25c. worth of laundry soap free.)
SPARTA WINS LAST BALL
GAME OF SEASON HERE
The last ball game of the season
was played Saturday between Sparta
and Fries. Sparta taking the long end
of a 6 to 3 score.
Each team garnered nine hits but
Reeves kept the visitors hits well
scattered. The Fries boys did not sco
re until the eighth inning when they
got a single by Vaughn a triple by
Fielder a single by Eversole and a
sacrifice by Jackson giving them two
runs. In the ninth Daltin hit, Porter
hit and Mabe sacrificed and Dalton
scored with their last score of the
game.
In the first inning for Sparta Car
penter flied to Dalton, L. Reeves hit
for the circuit, Edwards hit anothe
homer, Thompson rolled out to first
base, Black connected for a home run,
Joines rolled one to third base and
was thrown out at first ending the
inning. The locals did not score again
son had flied out. Black hit a high fly
until the sixth. Edwards and Thomp
to Borter in left field and he dropped
it and Black reached first on the er
ror, Joines hit a two bagger. Jones
singled and Black and Joines scored.
McMillan struck out to end the inn
ing. In the seventh Vaughn releived
Porter on the mound. Press Reeves ^
was out Evans to Fielder, Carpenter j
reached first on an error by Fielder j
L. Reeves struck out, Edwards hit a
triple to center field one of the long
est balls ever hit in the park and Car
penter scored the final score of the
game.
The following box score and sum
mary:
Ab.
3
4
3
4
4
4
4
Fries
Eversole
Jackson
Evans
Dalton
Porter
Mabe
Porter
Vaughn
Fielder
Sparta
Carpenter
Reeves L.
Edwards
Thompson
Black
Joines
Jones
Pos.
C .
2b.
3b.
SS.
P. If.
CF.
RF.
LF. P.
lb. 3
Pos.
RF
LF
SS.
lb
CF 4
2b. 4
3b
R.
0
0
0
1
0
H.
Po.
0
0
1
1
0
0
2
1
2
0
3
2
3
1
Ab.
4
4
0
13
R
H.
0
Po
1
1
0
2
1
2
0
2
McMillian
Reeves
C.
P
0 2
0 0
1
1
7
2
3
4
7
1
LAUREL SPRINGS NEWS
A large crowd gathered at Meadow I
Fork Association Sunday with several
preachers present.
Mr. Bob Pugh attended the world
series game at Washington this week.
Mrs. Cass Spicer is no better, we
are sorry to say.
Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Fender, from
Stratford, spent Saturday night with
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Fender.
Mrs. Eula Irwin of Sparta, and
two children, spent Thursday and
Friday with Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer
Fender.
Mr. Wash Spicer and daughter
spent Friday in Wilkesboro.
Mrs. Caroline Brinegar, who has
been ill for some time, does not im
prove, we are sorry to say.
Mr. Willie Petty, who is taking
treatment at the epileptic hospital at
Raleigh, is reported by a recent visi
tor to be improving.
Mr. Frank Richardson was a visi
tor at Mr. C. M. Pruitt’s Sunday.
Mr. Charlie Richardson had the
misfortune of getting his barn burn
ed recently and a large bunch of feed
which was in it at the time. No in
surance was carried.
Mr. S. H. Bowers and son, Robert,
visited his sister, Mrs. Ferd Petty,
Sunday.
Announcement
Elder J. C. Dunbar, of Mt. Airy,
will preach at Zion church Saturday
and Sunday.
METHODIST CHURCH
C. W. Russell, Pastor
There wil be no services at the
Methodist church at Sparta Sunday
morning or Sunday evening, as I
will be in a revival meeting.
The revival will begin at Potato
Creek Sunday e\ening at 7:30.
The Sparta church wil be glad to
know that Professor Roe has been
elected by the Quarterly Conference
superintendent of the Sunday School
for another year
Mr. Joe Finney has been elected
superintendent of Shiloh Sunday
School for the coming year. We feel
that he will make a splendid leader
in the Sunday School.
Other superintendents re-elected
for another year are as follows: Cox’s
Chapel, Mrs. Enoch Osborne; Potato
Creek, Mr. Jack Halsey; Walnut
Branch, Mr. Steve Mitchell, and Piney
Creek, Mr. Mack Woodie.
BAPTIST CHURCH NEWS
Rev. J. L. Underwood, Pastor
Rev. J. L. Underwood will preach
at Scottville next Sunday morning,
at 11:00; also at Blevins X-Roads at
2:30 P. M.
The W M. S. of the church will be
in their regular once-a-month meet
ing at Mrs. Transou’s Thursday af
ternoon.
Announcement
Elder Ed Davis will till the follow
ing appointments: Antioch Oct. 18;
Union Oct. 19; Little River, 19, at
night; Zion 20; Crab Creek 21; Bay
wood 22; Galax, 22nd, at night.
Speaking of Cucumbers—
Mr. Daniel Wagoner of Bullhead, i
was displaying an Improved Long
Green variety of cucumber at the
fair last week which measured 29 %
inches in length and weighed six
pounds.
BIRDS OF ALLEGHANY CO.
HABITS OF THE SCREECH OWL
(By Claude J. Smith.)
As autumn draws nigh, I hear this
bird in every woodland and grove.
No matter how much you ramble,
this bird will rarely be seen, as it
spends the daylight hours sleeping in
some hollow tree. Last spring I sur
prised one sitting in a hole in a hol
low tree, but as soon as it saw the
rock which I threw, it disappeared.
The little screech owl is a permanent
resident, but is rarely observed or
heard during the spring or summer.
They delight in “talking” to one an
other from different parts of the wood
and have a varied wavering trill. I
have often been within 8 feet of them
while they were calling to one anoth
er, without their showing fear. Re
cently, while I was at a nearby cane
mill I heard a screech owl. My cousin
imitated this bird by whistling, and
soon had the satisfaction of seeing
the bird fly just over his head, and
light in a tree nearby. We soon heard
another owl, and the same perfor
mance was repeated. This shows that
birds respond to an imitated call as
well as to the cal of one of their kind.
I have found only two or three nests
of this interesting little owl, but have
never yet seen the eggs or young.
The eggs are said to be white in col
or, and to number 4. Holes of trees in
woods are the favorite nesting site, j
This bird’s food consists of almost
wholly of insects and rodents; there
fore it should be protected. I believe
this to be the most interesting of the
owls.
“What does the colege man do with
his week-end?” asked the mother. I
“Well, madam,” said the dean, '
“sometimes I think he merely hangs
his hat on it.”—St John Telegraph. 1
NEW HOPE ITEMS
4 Charlie Petty and Earl Delp msle
a business trip to Baltimore last week
Mr. George Edwards of Akron, O.,
is spending some time here with home
folks.
Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Osborne, and
Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Warden, of Strat
ford, went to Winston-Salem Tues
day, where Mrs. Warden has gone for
treatment.
Mr. Brantly Fender made a busi
ness trip to Welch, W. Va., last week.
Elmer Taylor and Myrtle Church
of Furches, were married Saturday
evening by R. G. Warden, Esq., at
his home.
A number of the young people from
here attended the tent meeting near
Turkey Knob Sunday night.
Mr. J. H. Wagoner, of Nathan’s
Creek, visited in this community re
cently.
Little Betty Gene, the two-and-one
half months old baby of Mr. and Mrs.
Brantly Fender was the lucky one to
win the first prize at the baby show
held at Sparta fair last week.
Visitors at R. G. Warden’s Sunday
were Dr. and Mrs. B. A. Wagoner
and sons, Arlington, and John, of
Wytheville, Va., Mr. and Mrs. J. M.
Wagoner, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Wago
ner and daughter, Doris, Mr. and
Mrs. John Higgins and family, of
Sparta, Mr. and Mrs. John Reeves
Watson, of Furches, Miss Susie Cook,
Gene Mitchell, and Charlie Petty.
Mr. Homer A. Smith visited in this
community Saturday.
“Did you peel that aple before eat
ing it, as I told yotf?”
“Yes, father.”
“What did you do with the peel
ing?”
“I ate it after I finished the apple.”
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