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in the United States. Of these 110 are women. New York City employs more than a hundrecT blacksmiths for various jobs. When the city advertised two vacancies in the Police Department in 1964, a parade of hopefuls showed up to demonstrate their skill at pounding red-hot metal, hammering nails, and trimming horses’ hooves. Shoes come ready-made in hundreds of sizes. One smith commented, "You don’t get the tang of burning hoof as much as you used to, because more than half the shoes are aluminum and they go ori cold." The average horse needs twice as many shoes each year as a child. A top-ranking craftsman carries in his mind the dimensions of highly bred clients’ feet, just as a tailor remembers the suit measurements of favored gentlemen. In addition to shoeing horses, the blacksmiths of rural America also made wagon tires, teeth for harrows, kiteft£fP%it«ifrSHs, candle holders, gunlocks, knives, and anchors. Some of today’s blacksmiths have abandoned farm work altbgether to create ornamental ironwork -- gates screens, lamps, fire baskets, trivets, and candelabra.
OBITUARIES
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Mrs. J. S. Bradley
Mrs. Martha Grandstaff Bradley of Luray died Monday, August 1, 1966 in the Page Memorial Hospital. Widow of J. Sam Bradley she was born at Kimball, Page County on March 19, 1876. Surviving are a son Grady E. Bradley of Hagerstown, Md. and a daughter Mrs. Charles G. Reid of Washington, Va.; eight grandchildren, nineteen great-grandchildren and ten great-greatgrandchildren.
A funeral service was held Wednesday from Bradley Funeral Home with interment in Beaham’s Chapel CemeItery, Luray.
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