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WIJM HhISTEK KVKMIMi SIAIt, Mll h• • •Mrs truestBEGAN QUILTINO AT 8C Dailey displays a double wedding ring quilt resting: on an old-fashioned quilting frame made by her husband The material is stretched across the top of the frameto be quiti- d alter it lu ' bt' n pieced. Mrs, Dailey was only eight years old when she made her first quilt and now averages 40(Star Photo)a year.QUALITY PRINTINGPom * l uMnrw mrlt;l to * foourd bookMrs. Ernest DaileyCARR PUBLISHING CO3? Waite M Phone WOInrBeqan Quilting72 Years AgoHouseCoStatefAlt;T-V REPAIRINGCallHIGHLAND Eft’S SALES SERVICE1 324 S. Loudoun St. MO 2-3347#*13? SARA FRITTSMrs Ernest C. Dstley of Whit-acre, ha* probably made more quilts than any other woman in thia area In the past ten year# she ha# averaged 40 a year,Mrs Dailey made her first quiltOPEN MONDAY EVENINGSUntil 8 O'clockWINCHESTER LAUNDROMATS« W lltrt St.Phone MO 2-878472 years ago, with the help of hermother. Mrs Nancy Kerns Braith-waite She was eight years old at the time, and the quUi was a simple nine-patch pattern.Mrs. Dailey use# a quilting frame made by her husband She ha* no help in making the quilts Occasionally, a neighbor drops in and helps out Mrs. Dailey savs**We spend more tune talking thensewing.'* ■■■■'When she began selling herquilts. Mrs Dailey received five or six dollars apiece. Now- she charges from 10 to 15 dollars.Her quilts are made from any cotton material. She buys some of this, and the neighbors give her their scraps.It requires ' about three weeks to complete a quilt. Mrs Dailey usually pieces, lines and quilts them. A few people bring in tops that their mothers or grandmothers pieced for Mrs. Dailey to complete.Quilts sell quicklv, Mrs. Dailey says, and she often has orders in advance. The most popular patternRICHMOND * - On the theoryit takes money to make money— especially tax money- The House Appropriations Committee has more than doubled the State Conservation Department's advertis-ing budget.This Is a part of Oov. Almond's program to give a shot in the arm to the economy of the state in the hope the tax base will be broadened sufficiently to stave off any new taxes during the four years of his administration.The new figure for advertising— a million dollars lnstend of the 3450.000 former Gov Stanley recommended — was contained in the broadened appropriations bill that came out of the committee late yesterday The new general fund appropriation total was put at5408.783.0fkl — nearly 12 millionabove the Stanley figures.The advertising money will go to a strengthened conservationdlt;lt;11U!rrclaliroibeotllipflt;fitic0ils}Expert MountainBoy Dead AfterRAN BERNARDINO. Calif .W-An expert mountain climber finally got down to s ledge where a boy lav by a waterfall, grotesquely twisted and still. “Negative.’’ the climber yelledto the men 300 feet above.They knew then that the crumbly cliff had defeated them, Young Donald Burns was dead.A dav earlier, the 13-year-old eighth-grader from nearby Colton was walking along the top of the cliff on towering Mt San Gorgo-mo. He and a schoolmate, part of a hikina Dartv. had climbed':(is the double wedding ring.She has pieced a quilt from each of her children’s baby clothes. Each child was given his quilt when he began housekeeping.Mrs. Dailey has lived in Frederick County all her life. She wasoriginally from Cross Junction. She and her husband will observe their sixtieth wedding anniversary March 10.She has several customers as far sway as Pittsburgh, Baltimoreard New York. All of these learned about her from friendsIN THE CIRCUIT COURT Ol FREDERICK COUNTY. VIRGIN lAtJanuary 25. 1958
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