Thursday, September 28, 1950
My fellow countrymen, it is an American of the lower order who does not go out to vote, come election day. There is safety when voters in great numbers turn out to the polls. Ill fares our country in elections when its people show their indifference to its welfare by neglecting to vote. Only four years ago, in another off election, the penalty for a stay at home vote was the election of a Congress, which has been called, right or wrong, the worst in a couple generations.
Our personal loss in this district was the defeat of a veteran statesman of outstanding leadership and service.
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Communists don’t really hate profits. What they hate is that Americans should have them, because profitable American Industry is one of the obstacles to Soviet World Domination. ~ Link Belt News
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What the church should be telling the worker is that the first demand religion makes of him is that he should be a good workman. If he is a carpenter, he should be a competent carpenter.
Church, by all means, on Sundays, but what is the use of church if at the very center of life, a man defrauds his neighbor and insults God by poor craftsmanship. ~ Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
CHAMPION CLUB EXHIBITS
Charlotte Cassell exhibited the Champion Steer at the State Club Round-up at Jackson Mill last week. The steer topped his class and then was judged first overall. Miss Charlotte is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willis Cassell, of Cass.
Others who won their class or placed high included Robert Gay, Nancy Gay, Lee White, Jack Gay, Richard Nottingham, Pat and Fred Shafer, Jimmy Oliver.
In market lambs, Fred Johnson placed second in heavy weight class, with Ray Kramer and Marshall Johnson each winning a blue ribbon.
In light weight baby beef division, Richard Beverage, of Clover Lick, won first place, with ribbons going to Jerry VanReenen, Eleanor McKeever and Bob Gay.
In the purebred sheep show, Asa Barlow had the grand champion Dorset ewe. Delores Arbogast, Nancy Gay and Mary Etta Smith each won a blue ribbon in the Hampshire class.
Fred Johnson placed third in sheep shearing.
JUDGING TEAMS
The state champion 4-H club dairy judging team is composed of John Hevener, of Dunmore, Thomas Tenney and Donald Gum, of Arbovale.
The second-best poultry judging team in the state is made up of Lee White, of Minnehaha, Julian and Keith Hively, of Dunmore.
These teams will judge in national competition at the Atlantic Rural Exposition in Richmond next Monday.
BIRTHDAY DINNER
George P. Edgar and Miss Martha Ann Edgar entertained September 17, at their home near Hillsboro in honor of his sister, Mrs. J. M. McNeel. Those attending the midday feast were Mr. and Mrs. J. M. McNeel, Mrs. George L. Hilleary and children, Ann and John, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. McNeel Jr., Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Edgar, and children George Thomas and Martha Irene, Mrs. A. E. McNeel and children, George C., Ann and Elizabeth, Misses Dorothy and Harriet McNeel, Miss Martha Beard, J. Lanty McNeel, Glenn Callison, Patty and Earl McNeel, all of Hillsboro; Dr. and Mrs. John R. Kight and children, John R., Jr. and Nancy Lee, of Norfolk, Va.; Mr. and Mrs. Isaac McNeel and children, William P. and John R., Mrs. Earl Edwards and Miss Margaret Hill, all of Charleston; Mrs. Allan P. Edgar, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Ruckman and daughter, Jane, Mrs. S. B. Wallace, Misses Roberta and Martha Hill, all of Marlinton; Frank B. Hill, of Wytheville, Va.
BIRTHS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. William Woodrow Mann, of Marlinton, a daughter, Beverly Jo.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Everette Wilson Dilley, Jr., of Dunmore, a daughter, Lelia Ann.
