I local Netfte
and Mrs- Prank Richard
lax, Virginia, were guests
homes of Mr. and Mrs.
Richardson and Mr. and
. G. Fender during the
car Wagoner, Staunton, Vir
, spent the week-end in Spar
ith his family.
•s. Lula Choate and Mrs.
. Richardson and small son,
ny, returned Tuesday to
home in Irvin, Tenn., after
ig spent the last few days
ng relatives in Sparta.
•s. Troy Irwin spent a day
itly With Mr. and Mrs. C. G
llr. and Mrs. Wiley Greene,
'■ Ennice, spent part of last
*ek in Greensboro visiting their
iughter, Mrs. Beatrice Ball, who
eently ’ underwent two major
iterations in St. Leo’s hospital,
Greensboro. Mrs. Ball’s con
tion is considered very favor
ile. While away, Mr. and Mrs.
teene also visited another
mghter, Mrs. Alma Hall, High
tint, N. C.
Kent Andrews, David Higgins
id Attorneys R. A. Doughton
id Robert M. Gambill made a
isiness trip to Winston-Salem
riday.
Misses Virginia Ashley and
ora Helen Doughton attended
Welfare meeting in Lenoir
rednesday.
Miss Mattie Lee Doughton is
lending this week at home, re
iperating from a tonsil oper
Miss Virginia Ashley, state
irse for Alleghany county, ac
impanied her sister, Miss Pansy
shley, to Winston-Salem on
inday, wher the latter will at
nd Draughan’s Business college.
Mrs. Frank Doughton, Laurel
pings, is ill with pleurisy and
keumonia.
Miss Mattie Lee Doughton un
Carolina
__ iy County,
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
d L. Fender, Plaintiff
vs.
Margie Fender, Defendant
NOTICE
The defendant above named
take notice that an action
as abovq bas been com
in tbe Superior Court of
ly County, North Caro
obtain a divorce from
of matrimony by the
from the defendant; and
said defendant will further
a notice that abe is required
appear within thirty (days af
the publication of this notice
Ike Clerk of the Superior
of said county at the Court
in Sparta, North Carolina,
answer or demur to the com
said action: otherwise
plaintiff will apply to die
rt for the relief demanded in
_ Oosnplaint
This January 14 1937.
I A. F. REEVES,
Clerk Superior Court.
11
Liquid,
Tablet.
S: Salve.
fhtrki
COLDS
and
FEVER
first day
Headache,
(forwent a tonisl operation in Ga
lax Saturday.
Ballinger Moore left recently
for the University of Kentucky,
Lexington, where he will be en
rolled in the School of Civil En
gineering.
Misses Gladys Robbins, Helen
Ingram and Helen Andrews spent
the week-end at Boone.
Alfred Feeatt, Mount Airy, had
his tonsils removed in Sparta
Monday.
Dr. and Mrs. C. A. Thompson
attended the basketball game at
Davidson college Saturday night.
Misses Mozelle Blevins and Vir
ginia Halsey spent Sunday at
Piney Creek.
Mrs. Jack Clark, who has been
visiting her parents in Salem,
Virginia, has returned to Sparta.
Mr. and Mrs. Lindsay Wagoner
and Mrs. Stanley Jenkins, Wins
ton-Salemi were week-end guests
of Mr. and Mrs- Clinton Halsey.
Circus Man Tried
To Hire Evangelist
To Travel With Him
Chicago, Jan. 19.—During the
World’s Fair evangelistic meet
ings conducted by the late Evan
gelist D. L, Moody, crowds in the
old Mammoth Forepaugh’s circus
tent were so large, the manager
asked Moody for an evangelist to
travel with him. He would give
him the use of his tent on Sun
days for gospel work, he said,
and pay all expenses Of the ar
rangement.
Such a proposal came about
after 18,000 persons, probably
Mr. Moody’s largest audience, had
crowded into the tent to hear
him. The unique assembly was
composed of clowns, grooms, cir
cus riders, men, women, children,
drinking and betting men, pick
pockets. An observer described
the surroundings. There were the
usual circus furnishings—ropes,
trapezes, gaudy decorations, while
in an adjoining canvas building
was a large menagerie, including
eleven elephants.
When Mr. Moody was arrang
ing for the circus tent one of
the circus men, with an air' of
derision, asked if he thought he
could get 3,000 hearers. The
manager asked the same ques
tion. It was after the 18,000
persons had come to hear Moody
and so very few had come to the
circus performances later, that
the manager asked Mr. Moody
for an evangelist to accompany
him. Of course, Moody refused.
RESALE OF LANDS
FOR ASSETS
By virtue of a decree of the
Superior Court of Alleghany
County, North Carolina, entered
by the Cleric thereof and approv
ed hy the Judge of the Superior
Court, in apodal proceeding en
titled, **W. V. i Blevins, Guardian
of R. M. Spurlin, Ex Parte,” I
wiH offer Bar aeie at the Court
houea door, in Sport* N. C., on
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1937,
AT 1:00 P. M.,
at pubKc auction, to the highest
bidder, a certain tract of land,
situate in said county and state,
on the waters of Glade Creek,
adjoining the lands of DeWitt
Bryan, Eugene Transou, and oth
ers, and bounded as follows:
BEGINNING on a Chestnut
Oak, running South with Ball’s
line 124 poles to a Black Gum;
then North 86 West 141 polaa
to a stake in the line of grant
W 60 degrees, then North with
said line 175 poles to a stake
in said Harris’ line; than East
with said Harris’ Rne 141 poles
to the beginning, containing 109
acres.
This land I is to be Void to pay
the indebtedness (of Robert M.
Tanas Of Sadat One-third cash
on day of sale; one-thud upon a
credit of six honk; one-third
•pan a credit of 12 months, pur
chaser required to give notes with
good security for the deferred1
payments, and title retained until
payment is mask in full.
This January 20, 1937. •
W. V. BLEVINS, GuanSun
Of Robert M. Sporfin,
Ztc-28 Commissioner
------
1 1 1 I
Watch Company
Expert watch and jewelry
repairing.
J. P. HAYNES, owner
Methodist W. M. S.
Holds Meet At Home
Of Mrs. Richardson
The Women’s Missionary soci
ety of the Methodist church met
on Friday, January 15, at 2:30
O’clock, at the home of Mrs. Glenn
Richardson, with Mrs. Grover
Enopier associate hostess.
With Mrs. T. J. Carson as lead
er, an unusually interesting pro
gram on the work being done by
missionaries in foreign lands was
presented by Mrs. J. M. Cheek,
Mrs. James Toms, Mrs. J. T. In
skeep and Mrs. Emerson Black.
During the social hour the hos
tesses served delightful refresh
ments to about twenty members.
The meeting next month will be
held at the home of Mrs. T. J.
Carson with Mrs. Emerson Black
associate hostess.
Baptist W. M. U.
Meets At Hom£ Of
Mrs. Amos Wagoner
The Women’s Missionary Union
of the Baptist church held its
regular meeting last Thursday,
January 14, with Mrs. Amos
Wagoner as hostess.
Mrs. Bain Doughton acted as
leader of the very interesting pro
gram, in which the following
members participated: Mrs. C. A.
Reeves, Miss Margie Vass, Mrs.
C- A. Thompson, Mrs. T. R. Bur
giss and Mrs. Left Choate.
At the meeting it was decided
to make the first payment on the
new seats for the Baptist church.
Year books were distributed to
the members, announcing the hos
tess, leader, and date for each
meeting during the year.
Miss Margie Vass will be hos
tess at the meeting in February.
At the close of the program
and business meeting, the hostess
was assisted by Mrs. Hugh Choate
and Mrs. C. A. Reeves, in serv
ing delicious refreshments to
about twenty-five members.
The regular meeting of the Wo
man’." Club, which was to be
held on Friday, January 22, will
be postponed until Friday, Janu
ary 29. The club will meet at
3:30 o’clock in the court room.
The women of the county, as
well as the women of Sparta, are
cordially invited to attend.
A program which is intended to
appeal to the interests of every
woman is to be presented.
Further details will be announc
ed in next week’s paper.
President Roosevelt
(continued from front page)
been erected in front of the
White House, complete with flut
ed columns, rambler roses and
magnolia trees bedecked in paper
blossoms. From its broad ve
randa, encased in bullet proof
glass, Mr. Roosevelt watched the
procession pass.
For the fourth consecutive day,
Washington was drenched yester
day in a downpour of rain.
In his inaugural address, the
president consecrated himself
anew, as in his first address, to
carry out the policies that liave
been in force during the past
four years and insisted that the
one-third of our population which
remains ill clad and ill nourished
must be given a higher standard
of living. He said “The republi
can form of government has a
way to protect its people- We
refuse to leave the problems of
economic stability to the winds of
chance and the hazards that be
set it. Government within the
communities, government within
the United States can function
without democracy taking a holi
day. It is our policy to build
a more enduring structure, for
the use of future generations.’’
With reference to the unemployed
and underprivileged of our popu
lation he said "No law-abiding
group of citizens is superfluous
in our nation.”
After reviewing somewhat the
business recovery that has taken
place during the post several
years, he said "The test of prog
ress is net whether we add more
to those who already have too
much but that more be added to
those who have too little.. Social
justice must follow the forces of
recovery. We have set our feet
upon the road of enduring prog
ress. We concentrate our coun
try anew to its ideals, in a world
of ever-changing conditions.”
After citing many changes that
have taken place in our national
welfare during the last four
years, he said “I believe that the
of America.”
In concluding his '
dress,
wL.—•— .
of
To Speak In County
Dr. Herman C. Weber (above),
of New York city, who is to be
heard tomorrow (Friday) after
noon, at 1:80 o’clock, in a
Presbyterian feature conference
at Glade Valley.
SOCIETY
MRS. BLACK ENTERTAINS
BRIDGE CLUB TUESDAY
On Tuesday afternoon, Mrs.
Emerson Black was hostess to
her bridge club, with two tables
at play. ■*
Those playing were Mrs. Tip
Turner, Mrs. T. R. Burgiss Mrs.
James Toms, Mrs. Bill Chester,
Mrs. Edwin Duncan, Mrs. C. A.
Thompson, Mrs. Jack Clark and
Mrs. Amos Wagoner. " The top
score award, a “whatnot,” went
to Mrs. Burgiss, while second
high, a bath set, was won by Mrs.
Chester.
The hostess served a salad
course, and ice cream and cake.
Surprise Birthday
Party Is Givenr For
Miss Rose Irwin
A surprise birthday party was
given by Miss Louise Crouse and
Eugene Higgins in celebration of
Miss Rose Irwin’s fourteenth birth
day anniversary Friday night,
January 15, at “Twin Oaks” cab
in.
Games were played and refresh
ments were served. The honor
guest received many! beautiful
gifts.
About thirty classmates and
friends were present.
Turkey Knob
Mouth of Wilson, V*., P. O.,
Jan. 18.—Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Os
borne Bpent Sunday with Mr and
Mrs. V. B. Phipps. *
Mr. and Mrs. ClareAfce Kennedy
and Ruby Kennedy lef| last week
for Danville, where they are em
ployed. ~
Mr. and Mrs. Harve Kennedy,
Roanoke, attended the funeral of
Mrs. Kennedy’s grandmother, Mrs.
Rena Halsey, at Potato Creek,
Friday. They also spent the
week-end with Mr. Kennedy’s par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Kennedy.
Mrs. Ruth Parsons went to
Winston-Salem Saturday to spend
sometime with her daughter, Mrs.
Fletcher Spry.
Elizabeth Cook and Maxine
Parsons visited Mrs. Nannie Wil
liams recently.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Osborne
were business visitors in Sparta
Saturday.
Z. F. Ward has been indis
posed for the past few days.
Creed Phipps, Akron Ohio, has
been visiting V. B. Phipps and
other relatives in this community
recently.
Mrs. R. G. Parsons and daugh
ter, Aleen, spent Sunday night
with Maxine Parsons.
Woodrow Osborne visited rela
tives at Volney during the past
week-end.
“G” Men Learn
Red Cross 1st" Aid
rincy crccK
High School News
School Making Progress
Piney Creek high school is
progressing, end it is thought
that, with the exception of vary
muddy roads, this is one of its
most successful years.
XXX
Mur Exemptions.
A larger number of students
was exempted from mid-term
examinations, due to honor roll
grades, this school term, than in
any previous year.
XXX
Basketball Teams Win Gamas
The Piney Creek basketball
teams won a “double-header”
over the fast teams of Sparta, in
the Sparta Gym, Thursday night.
Scares for the boys were: Piney
Creek 21, Sparta 18; Girts: Piney
Creek 28*, Sparta 12.
The girls from Piney Creek
gave everybody the surprise of
the season, even their coach and
teachers, for they were booked
for a sure defeat. They were in
no danger at any time during
the game..
Eva Weaver was the star for
Piney Creek, 19 of the points
scored beings hers. She only fail
ed one try for goal, both field and
free throws.
The boys’ game was so close
that everyone had the “jitters” all
through the game.
Nuts and Kernels
Troy Isaiah Jonas
The legislature wants the opin
ions of the public on the questions
that are before them. This para
graphed is afraid not.
If everybody carried the evi
dence of their sins on their faces,
I .am afraid that they would be
so chiseled up that Saint Peter
could not tell who is who.
Some people seem so glad and
proud of ^heir goodness that I
sometimes wonder just how deep
they have been steeped in sin.
And there is another kind of
princess of Wales. That is the
girl that can’t control herself in
the dental chair.
People who are always doing
so much harping in this world
do so because they an afraid
they won’t get to do any here
after.
Long before Ashe and
Alleghany were settled there was
a band of Spanish marauders
who passed through this country.
Not being traveling salesmen they
left “no footprints on the sand of
time.”
The president has broken an
other precedence by taking his
son, James, in as an understudy
to the President. He is fixing for
the Democrats to carry Vermont
and Maine about like the Republi
cans did.
When a voter can’t make up
his mind, try talking to him with
money or scortch some political
pie under his nostrils.
One way to stabilise the cur
rency is to convert the money
into horses and put them in the
barn!
“Pancake" Ms plane In
amine crash. He should
th«t he would batter it
Being known as the man with
the * Brown Derby is about as
humiliating as to be known as
your wife's husband.
Sometimes it takes nine stitches
to save one.
A woman called up a library
to find out what to do with a
skunk that had"five little akunkies
imiW her kitchen. They gave
her some long distance advice
Strained essays, like strained
W.HV- Sorter Blue Johnish.
They have cut down the site
of the bottle necks. That took
the fight out of the bottles but
not out of the beer.
a —j
Insurance Agent (to applicant)
—Can you tell me what your
grandparents died of?
“Well, not exactly. I know,
though, ’it wasn’t anything very
serious." .
Hollywood, Jan. 16.—(Exclus
ive) Freckles makes women
glamorous. One Hollywood make
up and facial expert, Fred Phil
lips, points out that most of the
glamorous women, both on the
screen and in the social world,
have freckles.
He goes even farther to remind
the public that when Myraa Loy
was in France, the feminine popu
lace so admired her freckles that,
they went to beauty shops and
asked how they could acquire
them. In no time, he adds, the
shops were advertising “Myrna
Loy Freckles.” In fact, Miss
Loy’s freckles have even aided
her in playing the Irish role of
Katie O’Shea in “Parnell.”
“Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford,
Luise Rainer, Ginger Rogers,
Marion Davies, Barbara Stanwyck,
Janet Gaynor, Jean Arthur,
j Gladys Swarthout, Maureen , O’
Sullivan, Frances Langford, Bette
Davis, Betty Furness, Jean Parkr
er, and Elizabeth Allan are just
a few of the screen stars who
have freckles,” says Phillips. *
Phillips also points out Mrs.
Wallis Simpson and Amelia Ear
hart, both of whom have freckles,
are considered glamorous.
A GAME OF TURNABOUT:
Robert Taylor has been look
ing over the house from which
Nelson Eddy has just moved and
may lease it. If he takes it, this
will only be another link in the
chain of houses passing from one
star to another.
For instance, Greta Garbo now
lives in a house from which
Jeanette MacDonald moved and
which originally was Neil Hamil
ton’s. Maureen O’Sullivan’s pres
ent home was built by Marie Pre
vost, then rented to Garbo, later
to Basil Rathbone.
Luise Rainer has Marlene Diet
rich’s former house. And a
studio electrician has the house in
which Ted Healy and all stooges
once lived.
ONE MINUTE INTERVIEW;
JOHNNY WEISMULLER:
“I’d like to put on a tuxedo or
dress suit in a picture and for
get Tarzan for the present. I
don’t mind uncivilized roles, how
ever, but I’d like to do my sav
agery some other place besides
the jungles, for a change.”
DID YOU KNOW:
That Sally Rand, of fan dance
fame, once appeared in pictures
under the nom de plume of Billie
Beck?
IT’S IDLE GOSSIP:
That the John-Elaine Barry
more bust-up is only temporary.
The odds are that they’ll be back
together shortly. Her explanation
is the feet that he is against her
going on the stage. . , That the
reported breakup of the Franchot
Tone-Joan Crawford pair caused a
riot of excitement, the last few
days. Although Miss Crawford
insists that it is only "idle gos
sip.” Ho hum!
FLICKERTOWN FLASHES:
Gertrude Michael has recovered]
from her illnessi which overtook
her just before ’ sailing for Eur
ope. . . William Powell is being
deprived of his lip adornment for
the first time in 15 years for his
role in “The Last of Mrs. Chey
ney.” . . . After completing his
role in “Slim,” Henry Fonda will
enter a Hollywood hospital for
six weeks for an operation on an
injured knee. . . A British film
firm is negotiating with Pola
Negri, famous “vamp” of the sil
Smm Castevaan Motor Co., for
rmSta batteries and tubas. tfc.
Want Ads
Ratal Qua cent a word.
Minimum charge per insertion,
Edwartds Bus will leave Sparta
Sunday, January SI, 8:80 a.
m., for Bel Air, Md. Information
W. B. Edwards, Darlington Md.
itc-28
. . . Freddie
private
napping threats.
YOU ASK ’EM, -
We Answer 'Em:
Now, yon can secure sny in
formation about your favorite star
or picture by writing you ques
tions to your Hollywood Corres
pondent, Box 551. Hollywood,
California.
I.' Tegardine, Chicago—There
won’t be any wedding bells for
Florence Rice. The blonde
daughter' of the sports writer,
Grantland Rice, so informed us
todaj? and vigorously denied the
minor you mentioned of her be
ing engaged to Ring Lardner,
Jri It all started she says when
hq took her to a couple of Holly
wood openings.
. .J, JB, Humphrey, Georgetown,
British Guiana—Luise Rainer and
Clifford will be married when you
read this. Clifford you know is
the Broadway playwright. Miss
Rainer’s photograph is on its way.
INSIDE GOSSIP:
The person who has been send
ing Alice Faye orchids is report
ed to be a million dollar orches
tra leader. Maybe you can guess
who he is—his band plays on a
famous radio show.
WHAT fiery-fiery French femi
nine star is the center of the gos
sip in this movie town right now.
She’s just finishing “Seventh
Heaven.” She wants to return
to Paris for a month and the
rumor is that she is leaving be
cause she wants to be going back
at the same time as a visiting
French director.
THAT’S all for today. Until
next time I remain your Holly
wood correspondent who says:
“When a modern girl says she
wants her face lifted, she means
to Robert Taylor's lips.”
Spartan Theatre
Sparta, N. C.
Fri ft Sat., Jan. 22 ft 23
Johnny Mack
Brown
“Desert
Phantom”
Chapter No. 4 of Mdl
“Robinson Crusoe Of
Clipper Island"
Also “Our Gang Comedy”
Men. ft Tuee., Jan. 25 A 26
Joe E. Brown and
James Cagney
in
“A Midsummer
Night’s Dream”
with
Prank McHugh
Olivia De Hnrillaad
Ross Alexander
Also Metrotena News
Regular I Admission
eanaeawneneewnensnen
Wed. ft Thors., Jan. 27 ft 28
Radio’s Greatest Coined
an brought to you on the
tcreen.
Eddie Cantor
‘Strike Me Pink”
. Parkyakarkus
Selected Short Subjects
COMING SOON!
Gable, Harlow.
Tracy, Ley
“LIBELED LADY”
HmnnamflnkflHmwHmsiiasMMnNM
sylvania Farms
.......».
In The Garden Spot Of America,
' Cheater and Lancaster Counties
BIG FARMS — LITTLE FARMS
At Right Prices and a Square Deal
For information write to
AL F. WHEELER, Realtor, Oxford, Pa.