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ALLEGHANY STAR* TIMES OVER HALF A CENTURY OF SERVICE TO THE PEOPLE OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY 52nd. Year No. 18. Sparta, N. C. Thursday, December 19, 1940. New Haven Young People Repeat L Play in W. Va. The temperance play, “What Shall It Profit,” which achieved such success on its initial per formance at Twin Oaks last month, added another triumph to its growing popularity, when last Saturday night the young people of the New Haven Church of the Brethren traveled to Goodwill, W. Va. and presented their play before a crowded Community Church audience. The Young People took to the road to fill their first out-of-state engagement in response to the urgent requests of the Goodwill Community Church. There were approximately nineteen in the cotnpany, counting friends of the local players, who motored to West Virginia, Saturday after noon, to be on hand for the even ing’s program. Following the performance the cast was given a reception and buffet luncheon at the home of Jim Poole, formerly of Sparta, and his brother Corbett. Walter Coroner, also a former Alleghan ian, and at present Sunday School Superintendent of the Goodwill Community Church, welcomed the temperance players to West Vir ginia and invited them to return. AT LIBERTY CHURCH THIS FRIDAY NIGHT The Twin Oaks troupers will take their temperance drama to the Liberty Baptist Church at Whitehead, Friday night, Decem ber 20, at 7 o’clock. If you are one who missed “What Shall It Profit” when it showed in Twin Oaks, here is your opportunity to see it by driving over to Whitehead, Friday night. Liberty Baptist Church will witness the third performance of the play. The young folks in the cast are already booked for a number of appearances in out-of-town com munities after Christmas. Admission is free. Young Women’s Circle Enjoys Christmas Program The Young Women’s Circle met ,at Green Gables on Thursday, December 12, with Mrs. Dwight Greece and'Mft, *K(TWerC i*T. Gam bill as hostesses. After the business portion of the meeting had been taken care of by the Circle’s vice-president, Wilma Crouse, the gathering was favored with an interesting Christ mas program, directed by the program leader, Mrs. Harry Vaughan. Taking part in the exercises were Misses Lillie Er vin, Billy Ratledge, and Wilma Crouse, who gave a delightful Christmas reading. Then all join ed in singing Christmas carols. During the social period which followed, the hostesses served re freshments suggestive of the Christmas season to the sixteen members and visitors present. New members welcomed into the Circle at this meeting were: Nada Landreth, Kathleen Harris, Mozelle Andrews, Eva Edwards and Billy Jones. Mrs. L. F. Strader invited the Circle to meet at the parsonage for their January meeting, to gether with Circle No. 1 of the Woman’s Society of Christian Service. Women’s Christian Society Meets At Four Oaks Tavern The Women’s Society of Chris tian Service held its December meeting one day earlier than was previously announced when they gathered at the home of Mrs. Reeves, Four Oaks Tavern, at two o’clock last Thursday after noon. Mrs. Grover Landreth and Mrs. Bessie Reeves acted as hostesses, while the meeting was presided over by Mrs. Blake Hampton. The Society used as its topic for the day, “Possessions and their Spiritual Values.” Mrs, E. Black and Mrs. T. J. Carson book part in the program. Following a “Christmas Read ing” by Wilma Crouse, the ladies announced that eight dollars had been realized from a unique pro ject the group had launched at its previous meeting. A pair of blue overalls, which had been circulated among the members during the month, was returned to the Society adorned with a motley array of patches. Each patch was of a different size and color, and sewed beneath each patch was a cash donation. The ladies had an enjoyable as well as a profitable time tearing off the patches and retrieving the money inside. The January meeting is to meet at the residence of Mrs. Strader, with Mrs. J. L. Doughton con ducting the program. Are you a good driver—or do you just think you are ? Our wo rid... A Simple Plan for Aiding Britain Washington.—President Roosevelt announced a sweeping new plan for helping Great Britain under which the United States government would take over future British war orders and release the materials for use abroad on a lease or mortgage basis to be repaid in knd after the war. Under the plan, planes and guns, for example, would be leased to the British. The President likened it to a man lending a neighbor a hose to put out a fire in his house. • • • Americans Will Approve This Washington.—Expulsion of Princess Stefanie Hohenlohe-Waldenbourg-Schillingsfurst, once known as London’s leading Nazi hostess, and Karl Scheuring, 18-year-old Nazi sympathizer, was ordered yesterday by the Justice Department. • • • Terrible Blast in Cincinnati Cincinnati.—A blast that left almost no two bricks joined by mortar, nor timbers by spikes, killed 18 men, women and children of five families in an old down town tenement before dawn yesterday. A dozen other persons, saved only because they lived on upper floors of the three-story building and came down on top of the rubble instead of under it, were injured, none seriously. What caused the explosion, which splin tered windows for blocks and drove bricks through nearby walls, only one man apparently knew, and he was dead. LLc|' _ Declines Ambassadorship ~ London.—The London News Chronicle says that David Lloyd George has declined the ambassadorship to the United States, although pressed strongly by Prime Minister Churchill to accept. Lloyd George, the paper added, refused the post in consideration of his advanced age—78. British Aggressive: Italians Stubborn Cairo.—British mechanized forces, overcoming the resistance of three Fascist forts, last night were re ported driving into the outskirts of Italy’s important Bardia base on the Libyan coast where the virtually encircled Italians are massed for a desperate stand. Italian Marshal Rodolfo Graziani was reported to have decided upon a do-or-die defense of Bardia, 10 miles deep into Libyan territory along the Mediter rean, and the first determined Fascist stand against Britain’s desert “blitzkrieg” was believed to be at hand. Greeks Continue Successes m Albania Athens, Greece.—A government spokesman an nounced last night as “one of the major successes of recent days” the capture by the Greeks of a camou flaged fortified position in the northern sector where the Italians had stood stubbornly with permanent artillery and machine-gun installations. .. . • • • Britain Blasts at Ruhr Arms Plants London.—Adolf Hitler’s “invasion ports” on the French coast were ripped by tremendous explosions eai'ly today as the R. A. F. stepped up its aerial of fensive after a smashing, seven-hour bombing of Ger many’s industrial Ruhr district. The Mannheim dis trict of the Ruhr with its vital arms plants was said to have been bombed by waves of British planes. • • # British Warned of Spring Offensive London.—Lord Beaverbrook, boss of Britain’s aircraft production, officially warned the British last night that Adolf Hitler is making “immense” prepa rations to invade England before next spring and call ed upon his plane builders to “roll out the bombers” to help meet the threat. _ ..«wmiiiiinnmimiiimiiffl a..., Sparta School niimiMiiHimniiimiHiHUHiiiHinininiinnipl The Sparta girls’ basketball crew kept their slate clean last Thursday by breezing through their final game before the Christ mas holidays to top their Ronda rivals, 18-11. Displaying their usual form and offensive the Spartans were in no serious trou ble throughout the entire engage ment. But that does not neces sarily infer that the young ladies of Ronda were a pushover. They were out to defend an enviable record of no defeats on their own court in four years. But the Spartan power was too much for them, so our girls can enjoy a time-out period now until they meet the same Ronda club on the Sparta floor on January 9. It took the Sparta boys two quarters to get warmed up, Thursday night at Ronda, and then they turned on the heat for fair, but not quite soon enough to ring up a victory. The final score read, Ronda 24, Sparta 16. Last Friday’s fashion prome nade ran off as per schedule, amidst a holiday-season aura of beautiful Christmas wreaths, holly sprigs and a tinsel-tasselled Christmas tree. A number of visitors from the community ex pressed their delight over the efforts put forth by the Home Economics Class and their in structor, Mrs. A. E. Hamby. Get out your best bib and tuck er, while the boys in the orches tra tune up their fiddles and get ready for a real old-fashioned hoe-down and square dance. The music which will be provided by a string band, will start the fun a-goin’ at 8 o’clock, December 28 in the Sparta gym. The enter tainment is sponsored by Sparta High School. As son as the scripts for the Juniors’ new play, "Let’s Get Rich,” arrive, the class will com mence rehearsal’ in earnest. The cast is reported to have been chosen. Meanwhile, the faculty is do ing a bit of rehearsing on its own these days. “Billy’s Goat,” a domestic comedy, will be ready for its curtain call on Saturday, January 11, according to reports. Although each elementary teacher plans to trim a Christmas tree for her individual schoolroom —.yet, just the same, the children “caint hardly wait” until the last bell rings and the Yuletide holi days begin on Friday. MAGICIAN AMAZES AND AMUSES H. S. STUDENTS Every eye in Sparta High School auditorium was riveted on the dark sleek Spanish magician, Senor Viera, when he unloaded his mysterious bag of tricks Mon day morning, and put his little one ring circus through its paces. Senor Viera kept the boys and girls virtually on the edge of their seats for sixty minutes while he amazed his young au dience with numerous sleight-of hand tricks, and then amused them by producing two comical, well-trained animals,—a monkey and a dog. The monkey, dress ed in a green sweater, cowboy pants and a huge sombrero, ludic rously strummed a guitar and did a “Hi-Yo-Silver” act while riding in bronco-fashion, using his canine companion for a horse. Both dog and monkey also per formed a number of clever acro batic tricks. Spectators pronounced the Spanish presto-change artist to be the finest and most unique per former they had even seen. Unlike most itinerant magicians the senor travelled exceptionally light. A cage for the monk and a small overnight bag appeared "CHRISTMAS GREETINGS" From the Alleghany Star-Times Over 50 Years of Service to the People of Alleghany County. Preston B. Reeves Funeral Friday At His Home Preston B. Reeves passed away at his home last Wednesday morn ing, December 11, at the age of 88, following a period of failing health covering several years. His home in Grayson County on the banks of New River nearly op posite Woodruff’s stone quarry is a well-known place, and as Mr. Reeves had dealt in cattle for 60 year's he was very widely known and highly respected. The funeral service was held at the home Friday morning at 11 o’clock, conducted by Elder J. D. Vass, Primitive Baptist minister of Fancy Gap, and. was very largely attended in spite of drizzl ing rain. Interment was in the home cemetery. Mr. Reeves was kin to several of the Reeves family of Alleghany ; County, and leaves four daughters and one son,—Mrs. I. B. Bryant, Mrs. Bina Hawthorne, Mrs. O. O. Smith and George Reeves, of In dependence, and Mrs. June P. Hale, of Spring Valley. Mrs. J. E. Joines has returned to Boone after a week’s visit here with her sister, Mrs. Maude Rich ardson. Claude Crouse has accepted a position in New Jersey, and Mrs. Crouse and son Harold expect to move soon to join him. O. B. Omohundro, of Franklin, N. C., was in Sparta over the week-end. to comprise his entire parapher nalia. The morning’s entertainment had been eagerly anticipated by the students for some time and was well attended, and the High School sponsors enjoyed apprecial abl6 dividends when the last stipend had been counted, it was disclosed. Real Christmas Radio Program Sunday Night One of radio’s most popular shows—General Electric's “Hour i of Charm”—will come to listen- ; ers completely stripped of com-1 mercial announcements on Sunday night, December 22 at 10 o’clock, when the sponsor? present in- - stead, against a musical back-! ground by Phil Spitalny’s all-girl orchestra, a brief but significant Christmas message written espec-1 ially for the broadcast by Bruce Barton, author of the beloved book “The Man Nobody Knows!” i Entitled “The Meaning of the ' Star,” Barton’s original message is a poignant plea for peace in the world ... a lasting peace! founded upon the teachings of the j Christ child. It is a simple time- j ly editorial based upon the mean-1 ing of the Star of Bethlehem ■ . • ! a meaning which “once revealed | to mankind, can never be blacked! out!” In the true Yuletide spirit, the “Hour of Charm” all-girl orches tra, under Mr. Spitalny’s baton, will offer an unusual musical in terpretation of the season’s most familiar poem, “’Twas The Night, Before Christmas”; With bows* and fiddles, trumpets and drums, j the orchestra will musically visual-: ize Christmas as seen through the I wondering eyes of a child. Selections for the broadcast, most of which have been espec ially arranged by Evelyn of the Magic Violin, are: The Night Before Christmas— (A Spoken Song); Parade of the Wooden Soldiers—Orchestra; Nur sery Rhymes—Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star; Farmer in the Dell; Lazy Mary, and Mary Had a Little Lamb—Rosa Linda and Lola at the Grand Pianos; Me and My Violin—Evelyn and her Magic Violin; Three Toy Trumpets— Trumpet Trio and Drummer; Dancing Tambourine—Orchestra; March of the Toys—Orchestra; Toyland—Vivien and Violins, and Silent Night, Holy Night—Violins and Voices. Mrs. Halsey Hostess j To Baptist W. M. S. The Sparta Baptist W. M. S. met last Thursday at the home of Mrs. R. C. Halsey. The pro gram was on “China and Japan” with a number of the members participating. During the business session officers were elected forj the coming year a§ follows: Mrs. ; V. W. Sears, president; Mi's. ; Dorothy Parker, sec-treas., and 1 Mrs. Amos Wagoner, reporter. Delightful refreshments were served by the hostess and Mrs. Coomes. Sparta Churches To Hold Christmas Services The Christmas spirit of “Peace j ■on earth, good will to men,” will : be portrayed in Sparta’s Methodist j and Presbyterian churches next j Sunday evening at 7:30 o’clock. A program of carols around a j Christmas tree and appropriate ) readings has been arranged by i Miss Wilma Crouse and Mrs.) Crystal Heninz, to be held in the! Methodist Church. The Presbyterian Church plans J a similar program for its Sunday j evening service. There will be ,a i Christmas service and a brief ser mon by the pastor, Rev. Mr. Berry, entitled “Abide With Us.” A Christmas pageant will be presented at the Glade Valley Church on Monday evening, De cember 23, at 7:30 o’clock. Everyone is invited to attend these various Christmas services. Get into the spirit of the season, and come out to church. Christmas Day Service at Liberty Rev. A. F. Absher plans to preach at 11 o’clock on Christ mas Day at Liberty Church. David Higgins Buys Irwin Barber Shop —“And that’s the news” as the radio announcer tells usl The figure of Troy Irwin presiding- in the barber shop is now ancient history, for he has sold to David Higgins and taken up hig new work of selling the popular Chev rolet cal's for Chas. Castevens. To have David in. the barber shop seems natural enough, only now he's the boss. And Robert Andrews is gone, too, to some Government job, it is reported. New Punishment A Strong Reminder Judge Blame W. Hatch is the originator of a new process of punishment for hit-and-run driv ers in Battle Creek, Michigan. Harold E. Lee, 18, of St. Mary's Lake, was arrested for leaving the scene of an incident in which his car knocked down Leo Lowe, 28, a pedestrian. Judge Hatch ruled that Lee would spend each week-end for . 15 weeks in the county jail. NOTICE Because of Christmas holi days the Star-Times will omit the issue next week, and re sume again with the issue of January 2. Meantime, “Merry Christmas to all.” W. S. MEAD .. V Only 4 More Shopping Days To Christmas Get your Christmas shoppii done now, or you’ll be in the last minute rush and crush. a
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