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The small daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Olvin Edwards has been very sick, but is now improving. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Gentry, Glade Valley, have announced the recent birth of a son. Charlie Brooks is ill with meas les. Mrs. Ellen Parks returned to i Sparta Sunday from Winston-1 Salem where she spent the win ter. Charlie Cox’s little daughter is seriously ill from an infec tion resulting from a lanced gum. Mothers, Attention! I know you want your child to have a better musical advantage than you enjoyed as a girl. Make the right start by providing a good piano now at unheard inf prices. SPECIAL Good Used PIANOS. World’s Standard Makes—Steck; Starr; j Laffargue; Pease; Krell; Hallett & Davis; Story & Clark; Winter at $40, $50, $60, $75 and up With bench to < match, delivered to your home. Cash or Terms. Largest stock of new and used pianos to choose from in the Caralinas. Bowen Piano Co. Next to .Post Office Trade Street WINSTON-SALEM, N. C. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Halsey re turned Thursday from a several weeks’ visit in New York, Maine and Maryland. Mrs. Mattie Andrews, Mrs. A. V. Choate and Walter Osborne and children, Mary Ennice, Susie and Prank, were shopping in Winston-Salem Saturday. Miss Pearl Fields was in Sparta Monday. Miss Viva Stone and Gilbert Andrews, of Iowa, are visiting relatives here. Mr and Mrs. Purvis Lee, Pine hurst, spent the week-end with Mrs. Lee’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Irwin. Gladys Wingate, Independence, visited her sister, Mrs- Dewey Sturdivant, during the week-end. Troy Fender, who has been spending a week or two with his parents near Vox, returned to Akron, Ohio, last week, accom panied by Kemp Rector. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bl'evins and children, of Galax, were Sunday f guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Rector. Vann Miller, Laurel Springs, spent Monday in Sparta. Mrs. George Cheek is visiting Mrs. Sam Davis in High Point. Miss Mabel Jones, who is at tending Appalachian State Teach ers college, Boone, wa^ in Sparta Saturday. J. A. Williams, a teacher at Appalachian State Teachers’ col lege, Boone, and Oder Joines, were in town Monday. Dr. C. A. Thompson returned to the hospital Monday for a re-examination of his leg which was injured in an automobile ac cident last week. The x-ray showed no fracture of the bone. Mr. and Mrs. Millard Goodman and family spent Sunday at their farm near West Jefferson. Mrs. A. S. Carson, Raleigh, was in town during the week end. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Powell and little daughter, of Mt. Airy, vis oited friends in Sparta Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Roe and Mrs. J. M. Doughton were shop ping in Winston-Salem Saturday. Mrs. Floyd Irwin and children left Monday to join Mrs. Irwin’s husband in Bel Air, Md., where he is operating a .cleaning and See Casteven* Motor Co. for radio batteries, tubes and ser vice.—adv. tie. 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Their car was driven by Hershel Fenderl who spent the week-end here. Mrs. Mabel Davis spent Sun day in Sparta. Mrs. Walter Blevins visited her sister, Mrs. Mack Wagoner, who is ill Friday afternoon. Mrs. H. G. Wells and children, of Charlotte, are visiting Mrs. Well’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Zack Osborne. Miss Cornelia Edwards, who spent the winter here with her parents, returned to Maryland last week to resume her work there. Miss Mabel Choate, of Edwards Cross Roads who has been con fined to her feed for the past week with measles, is able to be out again. Mrs. Rebecca Doughton,. who has been iff, is slightly improved. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gorham and Mr. Thompson visited rela tives in Rocky Mount and Mone cure during the week-end. Miss Thompson, Mrs. Gorham’s sister, returned with them for a week’s visit. Mabel, daughter of Lonnie McCoin, has been ill for a few days. Ruth Evans is ill with measles. Patsy Roy Burgiss is improv ing from her recent operation in Winston-Salem, but has not yet returned home. Mrs. R. B. Harrell was in town Sunday. , Clyde Crutchfield, farm super visor for ERA, is ill'. Mrs. C. A. Reeves, who has been ill, is slowly improving. Miss Grady Sue Spicer spent the week-end here with relatives. Charlie Gambill, Baltimore, Md-, is visiting relatives here after an absence of twenty-two years. MID-DAY STAR Boise, Idaho.—A mid-day star was recently seen by at least a half dozen people here Who re ported that it seemed to be dull, like the m-oon, but was not so big nor so round. It was visible for about two hours and then vanished. Congressmen From (continued from front page) that the Indiana professor has been imprisoned for pro-German activities during the World War. Hio apology was accepted by ap plause from both sides of the chamber. Bulwinkle’s committee, which is investigating Wirt’s talk about a revolution, was scheduled to hold its second ses sion today. Representative Clark was elect ed by the House yesterday to the vacancy on the House rules com mittee caused by the death of Representative Pou. Representative Hancock was working yesterday with Represen tative Vinson who is drawing up a report to the ways and means committee calling for a 40 per cent, horizontal reduction of to bacco taxes. Representative Weaver was successful in his effort to have the House pass his bill reducing the minimum acreage of the Great Smoky National Park and making other changes in the present law which might have" delayed open ing of the park. Representative Kerr again re quested Chairman Jones to hold hearings' on his bill to force con trol of production of tobacco by the taxing power as proposed by the Bankhead bill. Despite the general opinion on Capitol Hill that the bill has not a ghost of •a chance of passage, Kenr re mains optimistic over the legis-' lative status of his measure. Representative Warren took the floor of the House yesterday and called attention to publication of a list of signers to a petition to discharge the committee and bring to the floor of the House the Lemke bill calling for a new issue of currency to refinance farm mortgages over a long per iod of years at a low rate of interest- This is a part of War rens’ campaign to repeal the lib eral discharge rul’e which pro tects the rights of a minority and prevents a few House lead ers from stifling legislation. Representative Lambeth return ed to Washington yesterday from a brief visit to his home at Thomasville. His friends detect ed a pleased expression on the young North Carolina congress man’s face when he appeared on the floor. They attributed it to the fact that he does not have opposition in the forthcoming North Carolina primary. Doughton, Warren and Lam beth are the only members of the House delegation who do not have to worry with opposition in the Democratic primary. DEATHS MRS. ED HATCHER Mrs. Ed Hatcher, 24, died Fri day afternoon, April 13, at Mar tin Cemorial hospital, Mt. Airy. Besides the husband and infant son, David, Mrs. Hatcher is sur vived by five sisters and one brother, as follows: Mrs. R. D. Gentry and Mrs. Blanche Nor man, Sparta; Mrs. C. B. Burrus, Dobson; Misses Reba and Edith Thomas Gambill, of near Sparta, and Walter H. Gambill, Ashe ville. Mrs. Hatcher’s fathker, Thomas Gambill, of near Sparta, survives, also. Before her marriage, about eighteen months ago, Mrs. Hatch er was Miss Elizabeth Gambill, of near Sparta. Funeral services were conduct ed Sunday morning at 10 o’clock in the Mt. Airy Presbyterian church by the pastor, Rev. J. W. McFall, and the remains were then removed to Elk Creek church in Alleghany county, near the home of Mrs. Hatcher’s fath er, and another service was con ducted by Rev. C. W. Ervin, who was assisted by Rev. Joe Folger, Rev. O. W. Marshall and Rev. C. W. Russell. Interment was in the nearby cemetery. Pallbearers were: R. B. Mc Millan, C. W. Higgins, R. C. Gentry, R. D. Gentry, Bert Thompson and Page Thompson. Flower bearers were: Mrs. Ruth Choate, Betty Fowler, Blanche Gambill, Sallie Reeves, Maude Richardson, Mary Whitaker, Ruth Gambill, Zennie Richardson, Far rye Gambill', Rose Gambill, Kate Richardson, Edna Thompson and Madge McMillan. METHODIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY HOLDS MEET FRI. The Ladies Missionary society of the Methodist church met on Friday, April 13, at Piney Creek, \yith Mrs. R. E. Black and Mrs. R. Earl Wagoner as joint hos tesses. Following the transaction of business matters, the leader, Mrs. C. R. Russell, presented a very interesting and instructive pro gram on “Brazil.” Mrs. Lola White, Mrs. John Cheek, Mrs. T. J. Carson, Mrs. R. E. Wagoner, Mrs. Rex Mitchell and Mrs. Mar vin Doughton gave interesting talks on the subject. At the conclusion of the pro gram, the hostesses served delic ious refreshments to fourteen members and one guest, Mrs. Mack Parsons. At the next meet ing, the society members will be the guests of Mrs. H. T. Smith at Independence. $10,000,000 SPENT FOR RELIEF WORK IN STATE Washington, April 17.—Harry L. Hopkins, Federal Emergency Relief administrator, stated yes terday that over ten million dol lars was spent in North Carolina for unemployment relief from all public funds during 1933 and through February of this year. Throughout the United States $791,419,159.79 was spent in 1933 and over a hundred million during the first two months of this year. In North Carolina $9,381,342. 30 was spent in 1933, $606, 592.45 in January, and $628, 552.28 in February. Want Ads Rate: One cent a word. Minimum charge per insertion, 25 cent*. Edwards will leave Sparta April 21 for Bel Airf Md., at 8:30 a. m.—Information: W. B. Edwards, Darlington, Md. 2tc-26 Found: 3 light gray turkey hens. Owner may get feame by paying for ad and keep.—G. A. Roupe, Scottville, N. C. ltc-19 For Sale: 4-burner oil range, bed and springs, dresser, center table, rug, baby carriage and high chair all at sacrifice prices.—Mrs. Fred G. Richardson Sparta, 2tcl9 Notice: I will stand at the bam during the season of 1934, a pure-bred Black Spanish Jack, 15% hands high. For informa tion, see or write L. S. Richard son, Furches, N. C. 4tp-3 Notice—I will make round trips to Winston-Salem every Thursday. Leave your order for hauling at Alleghany Motor Sales. Wayne Hoppers. tfc. RABIES VACCINE FOR DOGS 75c PER DOSE -at B & T DRUG CO. RECORD MAIL DELIVERY Stuttgart, Germany.—Mail from Pernambuco, 5,500 miles away, was received here two days, twenty-three hours and forty-five minutes after starting from Brazil. The mail was carried by four planes in relays, with the steamship Westfalen, in midocean as a refueling base. Commencement At (continued from front page) nouncement made concerning the play, one never saw so many mix ups on any one stage before. Each character becomes involved in the misunderstandings and just when things begin to look the worst, Aunt Cordelia comes through in her unexpected man ner, clearing the atmosphere. On Sunday morning, April 29, at 11 o’clock, the baccalaureate sermon to the Seniors will be SALE OF TRUST DEED By virtue of power contained in deed of trust executed to the undersigned as Trustee by W. G, Woodruff and wife, Ima Wood ruff on February 28th, 1933, to secure the payment to E. D. Halsey for Ithe sum of $1,000,00, due twelve months after date, whidh deed is recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds of Alleghany County in Mort gage Book 18, Page '67, and in default of payment of Said bond and on demand on the parties and interest to whom the money is due, ,1 will offer 'for sale for cash to the highest bidder at the Courthouse door in Sparta on Saturday, May 26th, 1934 the following tract of land situate in said County and bounded as follows, to-wit: Adjoining the lands of D. C. Duncan, J. L. Doughton, Eula E. 'Truitt, Dalton Warren, Myra Holbrook and others, beginning on a stake in Main Street in the Town of Sparta, North Carolina, running South-West witib D. C, Duncan’s line to the J. L. Doughton corner; t'hence with J. L. Doughton corner to D. C. Duncan’s and Mrs. M. K. Hol brook corner; thence with D. C. Duncan’s line to Main Street of Sparta; thence with Main Street of Sparta to the beginning. This deed covers only an un divided one-half interest in the above described real estate, the other one-half belonging to D. C. Duncan. This April 18th, 1934. 4, R. C. HALSEY, Trustee. 4tc-10 AT delivered by Dr. S. D. Gordon, of Winston-Salem. The Recitation and Declamation contest will take place Monday morning, April 30, at 10 o’clock. On Monday night, April 30, at 8 o’clock, the graduation exer cises will be held and the literary address to the graduating class will be delivered by Congress man R. L. Doughton. The 1934 graduating class of Sparta high school is expected to number more than thirty. Get Busy On That LAWN — NOW! What a difference a fine verdant lawn makes to the appearance of your home; to its value; to the pride you’ll take in it; to the favorable effect it will have on your neighbors and guests. We have everything to make it an impressive one LAWN MOWERS Saw-steel blades. Can handle all the hard work that you can djf QC give them . up CANVAS CATCH BASKETS 75c STRONG NEVER-KNOT GARDEN HOSE Will withstand hard usage d»0 y|Q and handling. 50 feet . BRASS NOZZLES . 29c Water Your Lawn With A REVOLVING SPRINKLER Set it in the center of your lawn and 1 turn on the pressure. Com [ pletely covers 20 foot area 89e EVERY OTHER ITEM NEEDED FOR YOUR LAWN OR GARDEN Galax Hdwe. Co. 104 North Main St. Galax. Smitheys Produce Farmers* Friend Building The Place For Bargains We have all the best grades of Fertilizers, priced a& low as others—and with the Farmers’ Cash Dividend m July. 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