Plain Irish Or Ragout,
Stew Is A World-Wide Favorite
Whether it be ragout de mou
ton In France, bredee in South
Africa, or plain Irish stew in
Dublin, around the world, savory,
homely lamb stew is a favorite
dish of all nations. And with
good reason! A lamb stew is
economical; a wide variety of
vegetables combines pleasantly
with lamb; the dish is rich in
flavor and high in food value; and
it may be made just ,as hand
some as one’s imagination dic
tates.
Stows With ft Cosmopolitan Flavor
. Perhaps you will find inspiration
for more frequent lamb stews
from these recipes for stews of
different nations taken from the
collection of Inez S. Wilson, home
economist.
Ragout d’ A'gneau (French)
S pounds breast of lamb
1 cup boiling water or stock
4 tablespoons butter
4 tablespoons flour
1 onion
1 small carrot
1 stalk celery
Bouquet gaimi (parsley, thyme,
bay leaf) *
1 egg yolk
1 tablespoon cream
% cup spinach puree
Juice of 1 lemon
Salt and pepper
Tnm the meat and cut into two
inch squares. Heat the butter in
a stew pan and cook the celery,
onion, and carrot, sliced, for fif
teen minutes, but do not brown.
Sprinkle in the flour, stir and
cook three or four minutes. Then
add the boiling stock, salt, pep
per, and bouquet garni, and stir
until smooth. Put in the meat,
cover closely, and simmer very
gently for about one and one-half
hours. Meanwhile cook the spin
ach, put through a fine sieve, and
season to taste. Mix with the
juice of 1 lemon. When meat is
done pile onto a hot dish. Strain
the sauce in which it was cooked
into another stew pan, and add
the spinach puree. When nearly
RE-SALE OF
VALUABLE REAL ESTATE
Under and by virtue of a de
cree in the case of M. E. Reeve*,
Administrator of J. J. Miller vs.
Kemp Miller and others in the
Superior Court of Alleghany
County, f will offer for sale at
public auction t*> the highest bid
der, on
JULY 1st, 1936, AT 1:00 P. M.
at the Court House door in
Sparta, certain lands owned by
the said J. J. Miller at the time
of hie death, consisting of the
following tracts.
First Tract: Containing 136
acres, bounded and surrounded by
the lands of J. C. Moxley, Sarah
Blevins, Tobias Long, Eli Long,
R. A. Waddell, the Sheriff Ed
wards laud and the W. F. Thomp
son land.
Second Tract: Containing SO
acres, more or less, adjoining
Tract No. 1. ..
Terms Of Sale: One-third cub
on day of side, one-third on a
credit of four months and the
balance on a credit of eight
month*.
Thu June 15th, 1936.
M. E. REEVES,
2tc-25AT Commissioner
boiling put in the egg yolk and
cream which were previously mix
ed together. Stir until the sauce
thickens; pour over meat.
Syrian Stow
2 cups raw iamb, cut into cubes
2 tablespoons lard
3 teaspoons flour
2 cups string beans
2 onions
2 cups tomatoes
Salt
Water
Dredge the meat with flour and
brown it in the fat. Put all the
ingredients in a stew pan, scrap
ing from the frying pan all the
flour and fat. Add barely enough
water to cover. Cover closely
and simmer gently until the meat
is tender.
Carbonada (Uruguay)
Fry 1 or 2 onions in olive oil
and when golden brown, add a
little finely chopped parsley, cel
ery, with tomato sauce and stock
to cover, cooking until tender.
Then add lamb cut in medium
sized cubes. Cover closely and
simmer gently. When the meat is
nearly done, add potatoes, cut in
small cubes, and 1 cup rice. Do
not stir the stew while the rice is
cooking, shake the stew pan to
keep from sticking, adding stock
or water, as necessary. The stew
should be fairly dry. Serve on
a hot platter, garnished with
parsley.
Mt. Zion
Piney Creek P. O., June 16.—
Mr. and Mrs. Cox Douuglas and
children, of Roanoke. Va., visited
the home of D. E. Douglass last
week.
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Pugh spent
Sunday at J. F. Shepherd’s home.
Mr. and Mrs. Homer A. Smith,
Johnson City, Tenn., visited S. E.
Smith’s home Sunday.
Mrs. S. H. Franklin, Cross
nore, spent the week-end with
her mother, Mrs. Rebecca Smith.
Several persons from this com
munity are attending the Bible
school at Rocky Ridge Presby
terian church.
Rev. R. L. Berry, Sparta, visit
ed in this community last week.
Jarvis Blevins, Topia, spent
last Wednesday with Thomas
Smith.
Misses Oma. Church and Iona
Foulks, Scottville, Mrs. Carry
Blevins and Valma Pugh. Topia,
and Lena Whitley and son, Bruce
of Piney Creek, were dinner
guests at S. E. Smith’s home
Thursday.
Mrs. Halie Douglas, visited her
mother, Mrs. J. C. Pugh, last
week.
Miss Vesta Pugh Hudson visit
ed her father, Dodge Pugh, re
cently.
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Black,
Topia, visited the home of Mary
Cox last Thursday.
With Limitation*
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Percy—That depends on wheth
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Hollywood, June With 217
high-salaried employees as £
nucleus, you too can go into the'
business of making motion pic
tures. After hiring this many
people, the trouble Is that you
will find that 2,000 more people
are needed before you can get
one picture under way. The fol
lowing figures are from 20th
Century Fox and based on the
present operating experience.
The fact that It takes from
2,000 to 3,000 people on the per
manent payroll to keep one studio
in operation is a source of woiider
to every one but those actually
engaged in the business. The
necessity for this comes from
the figure that 08 departments
have to combine their efforts to
turn out a picture.
The official personnel list of
20th Century-Fox lists only the
names of the heads of 19 of the
major departments. Of the other
198 persons on the list, 8 are
major executives, 7 are associate
producers. Next come the con
tract directors, 15 in all, while
the players under long term con
tract figure up to 75. This in
cludes 61 major stars and featur
ed players, 34 of whom are men,
26 are women, and one dog,
Buck.
To turn out screen plays, 45
writers are kept under contract.
The list includes 18 cameramen,
one portrait photographer, 10
assistant directors, 9 composers
and lyricists and musicians.
The telephone book, does not
include extra help taken in by
the day, week or month, lists
over 2,000 names. Then there
are 50 to 2,000 extras working
each day. This goes on at every
studio. Realizing all of this, it
isn’t hard to see why pictures
cost a lot of money to make.
XXX
Hollywood’s latest “casting
rage” is going full blast around
filmland. The fury started a few
weeks ago when Universal decid
ed to cast Carole Lombard in a
picture opposite her former hus
band, William Powell. In order
not to be outdone by Universal,
M-G-M has signed the newest and
most romantic couple off the
screen, Barbara Stanwyck and
Robert Taylor, to appear together
in “His Brother’s Wife.”
It’s the dramatic story of a
scientific expedition in the South
American jungles. Jean Hersholt
will play one of the important
featured roles. What producers
won’t do in this town for the box
office.
XXX
FLASHES from here and there:
Louise Rainer is very proud of
having her performance, in “The
Great Ziegfeld” voted as the best
performance of April by the
Screen Actors Guild. . . King
Baggott, Billy Clifford, Fred War
ren and Robert Wayne, screen
favorites of 20 years ago, are in
the cast of Joan Crawford’s film,
“The Gorgeous Hussy.” . . . The
last month’s listing of pictures in
the National Board of Review
magazine indicates that family
film releases continue at a high
rate. The listing classified almost
90 per cent of the pictures as
suitable for family trade. . .
Stephen Ames and Raquel Torres
are one of Hollywood’s most
happily married couples. . . Ida
Lupino has had all of her clothes
taken in 3 inches at the waist and
hips. She has lost 14 pounds in
the last few weeks.
xxx
STAR-L1TES: Mae West has
started rehearsals for her next
picture ( “Personal Appearance,”
which is based on the stage suc
cess of the same name. . . With
the story of the Black Legion
having been the main topic of
the headlines of the newspapers
during the past few weeks, War
ner Bros, are preparing an
original film story based upon the
violent deeds of the organization.
. , . Ruby Keeler will have the
feminine lead in the forthcoming
musical "Let’s Pretend,” in which
James Melton, the radio star, will
have the top male role. . . Fin
ally after months of postpone
ment. "Piccadilly Jim” will start
production with Robert Montgom
ery and' Madge Evans. Others
include Reginald Owen, Billie
Burke and Frank Morgan.
'XXX
INSIDE GOSSIP: The daughter
of the former western star who
has been seeing the late spots
with a Broadway musical player
is Dorothy Stone (daughter of
Fred Stone) and the male ip the
case being Charles Collins. He
has just finished the all-cok>r
musical "Dancing Pirate.”
WHAT blonde feminine film
star has been chasing all over
Hollywood with a number of dif
ferent producers but all the while
she has bee* seeing a young ac
tor who still gets top billings in
her affections?
-That’s all for today. Wait till
next week.
ST. LOUIS ... Mi«s Tommy
Birch, 18, of Maplewood, Mo.
(above), had the beauty to win
and be named Queen of the Tri
State' Ozark Folk festival which
is being featured at Rolls, Mo.
DEATHS
MRS. W. F. PERRY
Mrs. W. F. Perry, 72, died at
her home at Peden, on Tuesday,
June 9, and was buried at Mt.
Zion Thursday.
Rev. W. H. Hardy conducted
the funeral services.
Surviving are the husband and
four children, Walter and Carl,
Mrs. Minnie Blevins and Mrs.
Mazie Blevins, all of Maryland.
Turkey Knob Adult
Classes Progress
Much progress has been made
by the Adult classes of Mrs.
Coy Collins in the Turkey Knob
community.
Mrs. Collins has two classes in
that community, one early in the
morning and one at night, so
that students may attend at the
time most convenient.
Since starting in January, the
students have made much prog
ress. Considerable improvement
is shown in reading and spelling.
A few have learned to make their
first figures and many have learn
ed to work and use simple frac
tions for the first time.
One outstanding student, at the
beginning, did not know all the
letters of the alphabet, could not
write, his name, and did not know
and could not make any of the
figures above ten. He is now
reading, has learned to spell quite
a few words, can write his name,
the names of his wife and child
ren, and the name of his post
office, so that anyone ,ran read
them, and can majce figures to 100
and can add anff subtract small
numbers.
“Country Things
I Love Most”
When people live close to na
ture, what phases of it do they
really love most,? Some reveal
ing replies by jceal farm people
are given in a department in The
Progressive Farmer, in which they
write on “Country Things I Love
Most.” We quote the following
timely extracts:—
“I love clover fields, where the
bees keep up a constant humming;
a green pasture with a little brook
winding its way across the center
to meet the creek beyond the
woods; to see baby ducks playing
in the pond; the hum of a cross
cut saw working its wajf through
a log.—Jewell Allen, Putnam Co.,
Tenn.”
“I love the little paths of tne
country, each leading its own
way. This one is a short way
through the woods to a neigh
bor’s home; another leads to the
spring; another to the berry patch
or the wild grapes or muscadines.
You’d never tire oi exploring the
mystery of each little path. I
love the babies of the country—
baby chicks, cheerful and chirp
ing bits as they follow their moth
er in search of food; baby ducks,
yellow balls sailing on the duck
pond; baby robins in the nest;
baby kittens, white and spotted,
climbing and tumbling in the hay
loft; baby boys and girls, playing
in the sand, gathering nuts, chas
ing butterflies, hunting flowers.
Potential rulers of our nation,
they are getting their first les
sons close to that wise old teach
er, Nature.—Mrs. Stella Hollis,
Lamar County, Ala.”
“I love to hear rain falling on
the roof and the sound of thunder
‘from way down under,’ indicat
ing that another cloud is coming
up. I love bright zigzag flashes
of lightning plowing across the
clouds. I love the feel of new
plowed soil between my bare toes.
—T. A. Davis, age 16, Wayne
County, Miss.”
A Watch At Stake
With reference to that watch
on the Rhine, sooner or later
somebody’s going to get the works.
—St. Louis Star-Times.
Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Southers
and children, Zollie Doris, R. L.
and Hoyt, were shopping in Ga
lax Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Wagoner
spent Sunday with their son,
Isom Wagoner, of Ennice.
Rev. A. B. Bruton * delivered
an inspiring sermon at Potato
Creek and also at the local
church Sunday.
Kathleen and Buster Anderson
are spending the summer with'
their aunt, Mrs. Cleo McMillan.
Sam Williams, who has been
attending State College, Raleigh,
spent a few days last week with
his mother.
Mr. and Mrs. Robie Shockley
and Eli Mabe are conducting a
series of meetings near Coy Col
lins’ place.
Mrs. Ruth Parsons is spend
ing the summer with her daugh
ter, Mrs. Fletcher Spry,. Win
ston-Salem.
Sunday guests of Mr. .and Mrs.
Ben Halsey were Mrs. Howard
Smith and children. Mrs. Horne
Rutherford and Juanita Dowell.
LOOKING AT
WASHINGTON
(contiaued from front page)
the Union had ever been chosen
president.
As a general rule, Democratic
conventions have mad a more dif
ficult time selecting their party
nominees, largely due to the two
thirds vote required for a nomi
nation. Republican conventions, on
an average, have required only
four ballots for a choice, while
the Democrats have taken three
times as many. The all-time record
was 103 ballots during the Smith
McAdoo battle in New York City
in 1924. The longest “tie-up” in
Republican conclaves occurred in
1880 when 36 ballots resulted in
the choice of Garfield as a “dark
horse.”
UPHOLDS POWER POLICY
After hearings extending for
the
•
publicly owned and operated pow
er plants. Several months ago
the Fourth Circuit Court of Ap
peals upheld the PWA’s financing
of the Buasard’s Roost power
project in South Carolina and it
is expected that both cases will
go to the United States Supreme
Court next October. Justice
Wheat, in his decision, took note
of the testimony of Harold L.
Ickes, Secretary of the Interior
and Administrator of the PWA,
that there are 260 electric power
projects underway throughout the
country as a result of government
financing and that only eighty
five of them are located where
private power plants exist.
The American Federation of
Labor, taking note of an estimate
of unemployment, made by the
New York Sun, which showed on
ly 3,393,000 workers without
jobs, insists that there are 11,
506,000 workers unable to ob
tain employment. The discrep
ancy, according to William Green,
Federation president, is caused by
the fact that the newspaper did
not include all industries in its
survey.
CIVIL SERVICE BOOST
A bill has been introduced in
the Senate by Senators O’Mahoney
and La Follette to put all regular
Government employees under per
manent Civil Service. The meas
ure, which has Administration
backing, is not expected to be
pushed until the next session of
Congress, but is evidently aimed
to forestall critics who charge that
the Administration has wrecked
the Civil Service. Under the bill,
all' postmasters would be placed
under Civil Service by 1938 and
the President would be empower
ed to take the same steps with re
gard to other agencies. Some pro
tection is offered present job
holders.
A sharp distinction is made be
tween policy-forming positions
and those which are purely tech
nical or ministerial. The former
would be directly under political
“pergonal favoritism exercised
by officials in key positions in
the Civil Service is a far greater
menace to the merit system than
so-called political patronage” and
for this reason the measure re
quires every personnel officer to
take oath not to be "guided by
their personal or political favorit
ism.
DEATH UPSETS CONGRESS
The adjournment plans of Con
gress were thrown into utter con
fusion by the sudden death of
Speaker Byrne. Subsequently,
both houses recessed during the
Republican National Convention
at Cleveland and, unless contro
versial issues can be satisfactorily
ironed out this week, the same
process will be repeated next
week when the Democrats gather
at Philadelphia.
The tax bill has been the sub
ject of numerous conferences in
an effort to smooth over differ
ences between the Senate and the
House and a determined attempt
will be made to wind up the af
fairs of Congress this week. The
bone of contention, apparently, is
the House provision which fol
lowed the President’s recommen
dation for very high taxes on un
distributed surpluses, running as
high as forty-two and one-half
per cent, on the theory that re
tention of earnings in corporate
surpluses enabled some sharehold
ers to avoid payment of surtaxes
on their incomes. The Senate pro
vided only a flat seven per cent,
tax on all undistributed surpluses,
no matter what their size, and
retained the existing principle of
a corporate income tax which
was rejected by the House.
A “THANK YOU”
1 wish to tbanlc my many
frionds for the loyal support
given me in the election just
passed. 1 promise you, ,1 will
serve as a member of the Board
of Education to the very beet of
my ability.
ltp-18 G. N. EVANS
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