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TO KANSAS CITY; WAS m IN UTTIE JUDGING CONTEST 1$ Student At Mountam View ^ttle Judging Contest Held At Raleigh During Last Week IS GrV EN HIGH HONOR Re Is Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Templeton, of Hays Community Edward Templeton, lo-year-j old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Templeton, of Hays, won third i place in the state cattle judging! contest at Raleigh last week and i a trip to the national judging j contest at Kansas City. ' The Wilkes boy won in the j district contest some time ago i and went to Raleigh the first of I last week in company with his | Instructor, Clyde R. Wright, agrl- ' cultural teacher at Mountain | View high school. j Young Templeton returned 1 here Sknday evening from Ra- i lelgh and has received many congratulations from friends who are delighted to learn that j he will get the trip to Kansas City. In the contest at Raleigh, Young Templeton competed with boys from all sections of North Carolina. The victory tor the Hays hoy is quite a compliment for him, and is a distinct boost for the j excellent instructions which the agricultural students at Moun tain View receive. Wilkes Hosiery Mills Starts On New Shifts Tlie Wilkes Ho.siery Mills begun operaiing toduy on the new 40-hour basis in aceorfl- ance with the IntlusIriaC Ke- eovery .-Vet code, P. W. Kshel- man, president of the inills, ■stated today. nie inllls art' now employ ing two shifts, working eight Iiours each. The first shift starts work early in tlic morn ing and the night shift gS>os on early in flu* afternoon. Stone’s Daughter Asks Governor To CommuteSentence Mrs. Wayne Normcn Gc3s To Raleigh In Effort To Save His Life MRS. STONE A^LSO GOES Testimony of Mrs. Norman Convicted Stone Here Last August Wiley Post, Oklahoma birdman and co-holder of the world-circling record, as he bade farewell to his wife at New York befora hopping oH> solo, for anothe;^ 16,400 mile trip around the world an an attempt to lower the mark to 6 days for a new record. “Be careful, said Mrs. Post. “I will,” said Wiley, and; he was gone. He was careful, and landed in New York Satu fay to set a new time record and to be the first man ever to solo fly around the world. Advertise City Taxes b August Tax Collector Required Law To Sell Land In September By ll real estate on which city res for 1932 have not been »ld by the first Monday in -A.u- just will he advertised, in Au gust and sold the first of Sep tember. W. P. Kelly, city clerk and tax collector has announced. “The law requires that I pro ceed to advertise real estate, levy on personal property and gar nishee wages if the 1932 tax ob- The voice which was largely re sponsible for the conviction of Bryant Stone in Wiikes superior court last August was heard in his behalf Wednesday when Mrs- Wayne Norman appeared before Edwin M. Gill, parole commission er, at Raleigh and asked the com missioner to recommend to Gov ernor EhringhauD that her fath er’s sentence of death be com- I muted. Mrs. Norman, accompanied by I her mother, made an appeal for ' the life of her father, but retract ed not a word of her testimony in I court which led to his conviction. ,, j She testified in court that her hus band had told her ju.st before he I died that he was shot by Bryant! Stone and had seen him running; from the ^mok^house ,from the side of which the shot was fired. She told Commissioner Gill that she had testified to the truth in court and that she believed her h .sband had told her the truth. At the time of the trial, Mrs. Norman was arrayed against her father and apparently made no ef fort to avoid the dangerous trend of her evidence. Her husband had been murdered and in his dying EDWARD CAUDU CRTIICALLY WOUNDS HMSELF WITH nsm Lies At Point of Death In Wilkes Hospital From ' Bullet Wound Just Above His Heart; Shot Himself In Up- Stairs Room About 9:30 This Morning Janies Kdward Caudill, 18- year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Caudill, of this cif,v, lies in the Wilkes Hospital in a critical condition from a bul let wound inflicted by hiin- .self in an upstairs room of the Caudill home about 0:dO o’clock tills (Monday) morn ing. The bullet entered just above the heart and' recoyetY - is doubtful. Hospital attaches stati-d. shortly after noon to day tliat he was resting com fortably, althoiigli the outcome of the battle with death would be in doubt for sometime even though he recovered from the shock. The cause of the attempted suicide wa« not known this morning. He was in an up stairs room when he fired the shot from a pistol. Mr. CandlU .said he had no cartridges for either of his two guns and did not know where his son obtained..,tlte. caitiddge JONES Strong Charge Delivered By- Judge Cowper At Morn ing Sejssion: . .1. ,.i I II. - Judge G. Vernon Cowj^r, of Kinston, delivered a strong charge to the grand jury this morning as Wilkes entereci^upon the first of four weeks of superior court. After the charge to the jury, regtilar court business' was taken up. Jail cases are to be ti^ first. One of the largest crowds in years was in Wilkesboro today for the opening of court. The streets were thronged with people, some of them from the most remote sec tions of the county. The term which began today is a special term and will run Drowis In Creek Near Lexington Lacy M. Butler, Winston-Sa lem Lawyer, Also Is Drowiied WAS NEWSPAPER MAN Was Son of Mrs. E. F. Staf ford, dyrhis City; Funeral Veld Sunday Lexington, July 21.—E. E. Stafford, a newspaper reporter, and Lacy M. Butter, a lawyer, jjjanufacturing plants attended both of Winston-Salem, ' I Approximately 175 .Men tend Despite Rainfall Prior -To Meeting MEN told1to~6rga: Albert Beck, F. G. Coffey Tom Andrews Are Visits ing Speakers Approximately 175 woodw«rl era and' employees of furnitu; were i meeting of the newly organ! two weeks. On August 7, the^iate today.’ regular August term will begin High spots in the four weel^ of court will be the 16 homicide cases whic hare on the calendar for trial. drowned In a creek which forms ^ an arm of High Rock lake at j North Wllkesboro Union of tl foi" Southmont, 13 miles east of here, j United Brotherhood of Carpen- Rev. W. E. Pdbvey Dies At Ml Airy Presiding Elder of Methodist District Passes After Two Weeks Illness he nkear He was rushed to the hos pital immediately after he fired the shot. About 2 o’clock, he was conscious, but wa.s very weak. Kiwanians of Lenoir, Morgant()n And Elkin To Come Here Friday FUNERAL TO BE TUESDAY Mount Airy, July 23.—Rev. W. E. Poovey, 54, presiding elder of the Mount Airy district In the Western North Carolina Metho dist conference, died at the Mar tin Memorial hospital here to night following a two weeks’ ill ness of abdominal cancer. from the Central Methodist church, this city, Tuesday morn- Wlth two other Winston-Sal em attorneys, W. H. Boyer and J. O. Wagner, the two were in a rowboat proceeding to a house boat which was anchored in the stream. Some 20 feet from the house boat the small rowboat overturn ed, throwing the four into the stream. Stafford and Butler went und er. Wagner swam to the house boat and Boyer, in clinging tb- the capsized boat, was almost drowned. He was rescued by two youths, Rudolph Scott, 17, R. J. Crowell, 20. Stafford’s body was recovered about 45 minutes after the trag edy, which occurred about 5:30 p. m. Efforts to revive him with a pulmotor failed. The body of Butler had not been recovered early tonight. Both men were well known in ters and Joiners at the armory here Thursday evening despite’ a steady rain which began minutes before time to begin. It was an open meeting was conducted In an Into: manner. An enthusiastic reception accorded Forrest G. Coffey, official of the Lenoir Union, told the local carpenters 4bat union there Is strength.” A like enthusiasm was manW tested when Albert Beck, a rep- and j resentative of the brotherhood,.: arose to speak. Tom Andrews, ot Lenoir, who was Introduced as a 30-year Union man, was warmly applauded. At the beginning of his 'ad' dress, Mr. Coffey declared thai a union dtoes not mean protectloii for the loafer and Indiffi workmen.. “You must shoot Morganton, Wilkesboro Le-! announced. Kiwanians of Boir and North Wilkesboro will | The meeting will be held at gather here Friday evening, July Hotel Wilkes and will begin at 7 28, for one of the biggest inter-1 o’clock. Asheville, where he formerly ^ant him to shoot with yon,** worked. He had been a reporter jjg gald. That is one of the prill ing at 10 o’clock with Rev. J. T. on the Twin-City Sentinel oil (.jpaig of the organization, Mf. Mangum and others officiating. Winston-Salem for the past few ; cotfey told his audience, and It Interment will be made at Hick- | years. .. 1 is the ambition ot every Unl^B-;; man to make money for his em ployer and to receive a reason- boro, and'attended Wake Forest I able compensation for his serv- college. He was married twice. 1 j^gg his first wife being the late Miss | •• *when do we strike?’ Is Exiim Clement, who was the first | Quggtion often asked,” the .speak-' woman member of the North | gj. “The answer Is, we 'don’t bad I, ory at 3 o'clock that afternoon. While the condition of Rev. Mr. Poovey had been grave since an operation on July 7 when the extent of the cancer was discov ered, his passing came as a shock to the community. He had appar ently been in excellent health un til recently. i Rev. Mr. Poovey came to Mount I Airy tour years ago as presiding . . „ , ^ ^ , „ I elder of this district in addition Actmg Secretary Gemo Cardwell has been Stafford, who was about 40, was a native of North Wilkes-1 club meetings of the year. Announcement of the coming in- | said he was anxious for the local | yg^y active in civic and' fraternal survived by a widow and ter-club affair was made at the'club to have an attendance of 100 ■ affairs. At the time of his death | cblldren. i he was serving as master of the ligations are not met by the first | ber that her of August.- Mr. Kelly sa.d. committed the crim?- Taxpayers are advisetl to pay J passing, of time, how-1 Kiwanis luncheon Friday and more per cent, their taxes immediately and save harbored any bitter-; than 100 leading citizens of the j It is understood that a base-1 local Masonic lodge, the cost of advertising and in- heart, it was lost in j four towns are expected to be in ball game will be played at the ! orator of the Grand tkO'anxiety which she e.xperiencetl attendance. ' fairgrounds Friday afternoon be- • North Carolina, as Stone awaited execution. Her; A varied program is planned tween the North Wilkesboro and | William Edgar Poovey Carolina legislature. They had i gtfii^e. Organizations don’t strike one daughter, Nancy Stafford, | —(.jjgy arbitrate.” aged nine. Stafford’s second wife i ^ jg,, moments later, Mr. Beck is the former Miss Sudie Byerly, Lgj]gj attention to the cool re- of Winston-Salem. | ceptions generally given thnj.of^' Butler was about 38 and is j ggnlzation of a Union by a law j foremen and manufacturers. He 'said the union cause had been convenience which would from collection measures. result and was Lodge of Reece Is Called As Ronda Pastor RevivTiTo Bei appeal for clemency is expected to; with each club offering some fea-j Lenoir Kiwanians prior to the in- have considerable weight Governor Ehringhau.s. with ! ture. No guest speaker has been | ter-club meeting. A series of revival services will begin at Wilkesooro Meth- Local Man To odist chui^h on Sunday, July 30. | Rev. S. Taylor, pastor, announc- i ed to the press today. I Rev. Mr. Taylor will do the Rev. D. G. Reece, of Jonesville,: ■vras called as pastor of the Ronda Baptist church at a called meeting' of the church Sunday evening. • Eev. Mr. Reece is widely known -d«a ® p wapisuoo si pun ; Jonesville mini.ster succeeds | preaching. The Wilkes Bvange- ' Rev Wi E. Linney, of Wilkesboro, listic Club will assfist in the meet- vrbo tendered his resignation a ing. Rev. Mr. Taylor said. The >, fotf days ago. Rev. Mr. Linney meeting will be in progress for was unable to continue to serve ; a week or longer, as pastor on account ot his work. The night services will be held at other churches, of which he is • ut S o clock. The hour of the day pastor. Rousseau To Go ' C. C. Camp Boys Wilkesboro Church' J® F(,|-5ytli SoOU Coi2e TomOirOW service has not been announced. Methodists Tackle Baptists Again Thursday In Charity Benefit Game Head Collec- Second Contingent Will Ac tion Force For Revenue I rive On Train At 11:50 Department There j O’clock J. R. Rousseau, of this city, j The second and final contin- w-ho has been with the state da--; gent of Civilian Conservation partment of revenue for several j camp boys will arrive here to- years, has been transferred to born near Hickory on November 17. 1878. He was educated at Rutherfordton college, Ruther- fordton, and Emory and Henry college. Emory, Va. He was a minister in the Methodist church for the past 27 years. He was married to Miss Mabel Stroup, who is also a native of Hickory. To this union two chil dren were born. Miss Maybelle Poovey, of Duke university, Dur ham. and Edgar Poovey, of this city. He is survived by his wife, two ch’idren, his mother and several brothers and sisters. morrow at 11:50 on the train j; »i__* Rev. Mr. Poovey was a first Forsyth county and will take of- and will be taken immediately to 1 gQj,gjji of j. d. Moore, of flees in Winston-Salem within I the Wilkes county the near future. |Purlear. Mr. Rousseau will be succeed-1 Twenty-five boys arrived last jweek to do some preliminary camp near this city, an.d was well known locally. He ha^Wcupled the pul pit of local chur “He who laughs last, laughs last, la-ughs best.” sayeth Dr. Sam . (^sel, skipper of the North Wykesboro Methodist church’s Men’s Bible class team, and opti mist extraordinary. ^ The expi-ession relates to the baseball game which will be play ed between the Methodists and Baptists at the fairgrounds Thurs- day afternoon at 3:30 o’clock when the two teams meet for the second time in two weeks. welfare department and the Christmas cheer committee. A dime or 15 cents given for ad mission will help put shoes on bare feet this winter and bring happi ness to many children at Yuletide. So besides seeing a good game, those who attend will help a worthy cause- The Methodists will send some new men into the game in an ef fort to strengthen the opposition. The Baptists say “no” and the Methodists say “yes.” Well, who is In Ijheir first encounter, Jim going to win? V Beans’ and Bryan Gilreath’s bat- . tiers crowned themselves with glory and marched off with a 11 to 6 wetory. •The Methodists will seek to re peal this triumph Thursday in the game which will be played for charity’s sake. The proceeds of E recent c^twt .and Wouldn’t, .it be a joke on the over-confident Baptists if the Methodists should taket heir meas ure and force a play-off T That’s what the “Sprinklers” are count ing npop ^ing„and they want a large crowd thmre to see them do it ..- r th$ beging ed hern by B. C. Elements who will collect in Wilkes and Alex ander. W. A. Baker will assist Mr. Rousseau with collections in Forsyth where a large sales tax return Is expected. Arthur Fulk, of^Mt. .Airy, will have charge of collections in Stokes and Surry. M. B. Kibler, with headquarters at West Jef ferson, will collect in Alleghany, Ashe and Watanga. work and prepare for the arrival of the second group. Approxi mately 175 boys compose the group which comes tomorrow. Captain Crane, who will be in charge of the Wilkes camp, will also arrive tomorrow, it Is under stood. The Wilkes camp Is located on the Dewey Yates property near Jones Creek between Purlear and Parsonsvllle. on many oc casions. A number of Wilkesboro, North Wilkesboro and rural Wilkes county citizens are planning to attend the Poovey rites tomorrow morning. Stafford’s body was taken to j by communistic activitlea There u was the duty of real Union men to demonstrate that they were superior workmen and that they intended to give better service and ask in return better pay. The local workmen were told by the speakers that every man who labors should receive a wage I that will enable him to llVe de- I cently and put a little away for a FeU From Truck Sunday and I rainy day. A union does not Winston-Salem tonight, were no indications that quest would be held. -Wfagner said Be believed the (Continued on page four) Monroe Mathis Badly hjured I Suffered Fracture To His Skull Monroe Mathis, 14-year-old son of Mrs. Robert Johnson, of Call, suffered a fractured skull Sunday morning when he fell mean radicalism, it was declared. Tom Andrews, Lenoir factory employee, urged the local men to join the local Union in a brief address near the close of the meeting. Many of the meo who had not Grandson Of Mr. C. A. Dimmette Dies At Lenoir Erwin Dimmette, 10-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Dim- met,te, of Lenoir, and a grandson of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Dimmette, of this city, died this morning, according to a telephone mes sage recel-ved by the Dimmettes this morning, " Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Dimmette and Mr. and Mrs. Grady Dim mette went to Lenoir this after noon. They had not learned the- Mrs. Glenn Walsh Claimed By Death Wife Of Alleged Slayer Died At T.,B. Hospital This Momlngf Mrs. Glenn Walsh, wife of the alleged slayer of the late Police man James R. Grayson, died at 6 a. m. today (Monday) at the T. B. Hospital. She had bciea in the hospital for several weeks. Fire Chief To Attend Meeting C. G. Day Tir Attend Conven tion At SaUsbury This Week C. G. Day. chief of the North Wilkesboro fire department, will leave tomorrow -(Tuesday) to atT tend the annual firemen’s con-; vention at Salisbury. ’The con vention will be In session most' of tho "wooki ‘ From. Salisbury, Mr. Day, Ehojers money and to give high gra^ ■arvlca. ' ** from the fender of a truck on Already signed as members of the which he was riding. local organization registered He fell to the concrete high- with W. H. Lovette, president of the North Wilkesboro Union. The boy was brought to th^j It was announced that another hospital here for medical htten- meeting will be held Thursday lion. His condition Is reported as | evening of this week at 8 o’clock satisfactory I at (he armory. Iju-ge Advertising Campai^ On Murray Tires Is Laiuujhed Today One of the largest advertising campaigns ever Inaugurated by a North Wilkesboro firm Is launched today by C. D. Coffey. & Sons, distributors of Murray ’Tires and other Murray produfets. For the next several weeks, a series of messages on Murray Values and Murray economy will appear in Monday’s issu4 of The Journal-Patriot over the signa ture of, Carolina Super-Service day, Mr. company, an associatlonr formed by dealers and service stations to save wutomobile and truck Own- is manager of, the Furniture company, will go High Point to attend the L ture exposltiQU there Rhodes-Day IBrTlca-, ers: Motor don’s Su » ft tq For the past four yess, C. D. irnl- states. The advertising campaign inaugurated today, however, ^is a drive to acquaint motorists of Wilkes and adjoining counties with the superior features of the*, Murray Tire and other automo bile accessories distributed hy C.' D. Coffey ft Sons. ® * - Murray Tires earry„an uncon- , dltlonal written guaitwtee and ^ are backed by one of tkii oMest rubber companies in business te- J C. D. Coffey,, Jr., saldi" Uayy XKr« Vif* !/• LJUALOfn OMMki today In anUodnCint wjy paign. ^ Murray products arj9 by the tolli “ ' at - fun.^.al^rrhnge,, Ig., whqn Funeral af ipn; completed gementa had not -buy mercl]
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