Iteriber Teachers
Allowed Wilkes
3S&
%
Cut Twenty-Five
ABotinent For £isrht Dis-
tricts Of County Is
Made By State
WSTRICTS SHORT 38
ittees To Be Nanied At
Once For All Of The
Districts
m
M '
, Twenty-five fewer teachers have
, deen allotted Wilkes county for
the csoming school year than were
■ emphjyed last year, it was learned
this morning from Prof. C. B.
.. BUer, county superintendent of
schools.
The allotment for Wilkes coun
ty was received from the state de
partment of education Saturday.
On the basis of the anticipated
allotment under the attendance
’ figures for last year, the reduction
was 38 teachers. Under the old
plan, 13 additional teachers would
have been allowed W likes the
coming term.
The allotments are made to dis
tricts and not to individual schools-
It is now the problem of the coun
ty board of education to work out
the allotment of teachers for the
various schools in the eight dis
tricts which have been set up in
likes
The coming year there \vill be
237 teachers, including both white
and colored, against 262, which
was the number employed last
MASS MEHWG FROCUMATION
Whereas, Franl®i D. Roosevelt, President of the
United States, has appealed to the people of the nation to
co-operate in the movement for industrial recovery, and
since it is the desire, as we understand, of the employers
of North Wilkesboro to give- the President the -fullest co
operation possible, I hereby call a mass meeting of the
citizens of North Wilkesboro to discuss trade and employ
ment practices under the Industrial Recovery Act to be
held at the city hall Monday evening, July 31, at 7:30
o’clock.
It is hiy conviction that all who possibly can, especi
ally manufacturers, merchants and others who employ
local labor, should attend.
By uniform practices, it will be possible for our city to
give more complete co-operation and I, theiefore, am call
ing upon all employers and others interested to attend the
mass meeting at the city hall.
J. A. ROUSSEAU,
Mayor of North W'ilkesboro.
Citizens To Hold Mass Meeting
On Recovery Program At 7:30 P,M.
Pursuant to a piociamation is
sued this morning by Mayor J. A-
t Rousseau, a mass meeting will be
held at the city hall this (Monday)
I evening at 7-30 o’clock to discuss
a local program in response to
President Roosevelt’s appeal for
I co-operation in the national indus
trial recovery program.
I Business men, merchants and
^manufacturers are especially call-
I ed upon to meet so that some
; workable program may be inau
gurated.
The business men are i.nxious to
! co-operate in the national prp-
|gram and Mayor Rousseau said tho
I meeting was for the purpose of
I discussing trade and employment
j practices so that some uniform
program might he launched,
j Every employer of local labor is
^urgently requested to attend.
' Mayor Rousseau’s proclamation
;is found elsewhere on this pag^.
total of 213
24 colored
year.
The county gets a
white teachers and
teachers-
The allotment for the various
districts and the number of teach
ers short in each district follows:
Wilkesboro district: High school,
9; elCTJeutary, 48. Short, one high
achool and 10 elementary teachers-
M*.~ Pleasant district: High
aehobl, 4; elementary, 21. Short, 5.
* Millers Creek district: High
d^ooi, 6; elementary, 27. Short, 5.
^Sulphur Springs district: Ele
mentary, 14. Short, 4.
Mountain View district: High
•chool, 4: elementary, 22. Short, 2-
Traphill district: High school, 4;
elementary, 13. Short, 2-
Honda district: High school, 5;
elementary, 24., Short, 1 high
school and 5 elementary.
Roaring River district: High
school, 3; elementary, 10.
Fiv .. gh school teachers and 19
elementary teachers were allowed
the colored schools of the county-
.The ountv board i.s  xpected to
meet tl'.i v.c.: ar..i appo:nt com
mittees so that teachers may be
employed in the near future.
Henry Reynolds Resigns Post As
Probation Officer; Osteen Named
Has Coin Made
In Year 1799
j Local Man Is Succeeded By
Former Deputy Prohibi
tion Administrator
Here’s a coin story that chal
lenges the coin collectors of
Wilkes to equal or surpass.
J. V. Bauguess. of this city,
owns a “big wheel” which came
from the mint in 1799. Around
the rim is inscribed “One Dollar
or One Hundred Cents.”
The coin is in an excellent
state of preservation.
If anybody owns an older coin,
the reading public will be inter
ested to learn of it.
i LEAVES OFFICE TODAY
Iredell Expects
To Get Road To
Greensboro, July 28. — The
resignation of Henry Reynolds,
of North Wilkesboro, as whole
time probation officer for the
middle district of North Carolina
was accepted yesterday by Judge
Johnson J. Hayes, of United
States district court, who ap-
I pointed J. L. Osteen, of Greens
boro, to fill the \ icancy thus
jcreated.
' In tendering his resignation to
I Judge Hayes some time ago Mr.
I Reynolds asked that it become
Outside Jury To
Try Glenn Walsh
Motion To Move Trid To
Another County Denied
By Court
'T"' 117*11 I • I effective promptly following the
I hP WiIkPC I ItlA^bPointment of bis successor. The
^ TT lUVvO Ijlllvj jj, accepting the resignation
^ as of the close of business next
Statesville People Appear Be-[Monday, July 31, and Mr. Osteen
fore Highway Commission I win take up his new work Tues-
At Raleigh | day morning, August 1.
NO DEFInWe’ PBO.MISE c!
ficer,” said Judge Hayes. “He has
Iredell county expects the high-,
, ^ 'devoted all of his time to the
jway from Statesville to the Wilkes, whole-hearted-
lline to be included in the new ly into the proposition. The suc-
highway program, it is revealed in j cesaful manner in which he has
I- / Glenn Walsh, alleged slayer of
Rfcjftallceman J. R- Grayson, will be
^^trled by a. jury from an adjoin-
Ing county and this morning it
Kl wm learned that the county has
BOt yet been designated.
» The motion of Attorney Eu
gene Trlvette for the removal of
, Cke case to another county was
denied Saturday afternoon by
jHdge G. V. Cowper, but an out
side Jury was allowed.
-**nte defense contended that the
d^Bndant could not obtain a
"^talr trial In this county.
Reviiral Continues
At Moravian Falls
an article appearing in the States-! handled the cases has been com-
' pletely satisfactory in every re-
ville Daily Thur-sday afternoon.
The article follows: ,
“Messrs. Roy Plott, John Mil-
holland and Buren Jumey were in
Raleigh Monday, appearing before
the state highway commission in
the interest of certain road im
provements in Iredell cour|y.
‘"The state highway authorities
would make no definite promises,
but the local delegation was en-
spect to the court. He resigned
on his own voluntary account and
we regret for him to leave t^e
position.
Osteon -Man of Ability
“I feel that I am fortunate in
securing the services, of Mr.
Osteen, who has already demon
strated his ability and capacity
to perform public trusts commit
ted to his care. His acquaintance
couraged in the hope that some j with people throughout the dis-
form of hard surface would be putjtrict and his knpwledge of con-
on the rest of the Wilkesboro road
to the Wilkes county line. This
Beg, N. O. Teague Assisting Rev.
A. E. W’atts In Series Of
Services
'■ The revival meeting which has
been In progress at Moravian
, Falls Baptist church for the past
h eight days will continue at least
agtll the middle of the w'eek, it
^:rwa8 learned this morning.
Rev, N. C. Teague, of Winston-
»iem. Is assisting Rev. A. E.
7atts, pastor, with the preach-
means construction of a dependable
road from the end of the present
paved road, a distance of little ^
more than 12 miles to the Wilkes i
county line. j
“Other road projects in Iredell j
were discussed before the state
ditions will be Indispensable in
(Continued on page eight)
Highsmith Coming
Here For Meeting
lions Qdb S^eks
Better Out-Going
Mail Connections
Blail Leaves City Oidy In Aft-
emoon For Piedmont
North Carolina
SEEK MORNING SERVICE
Prof. W. D. Halfacre Talks
To Lions On Supplement
For Schools
highway board, but the delegation j of Elementary and
was given no assurance of any im-i High schools lo Meet
mediate road improvement in any
except completion of the present
Wilkesboro-Statesville road to the
Wilkes line, and this was not in
the form of r. definite promise.
‘“There is no information at
Tuesday
Much Interest has been mani
fested In the services and sever
al conversions were reported.
Dr. J. Henry Highsmith, state
inspector of high schools, will
come to Wilkes Tuesday, August
I 8, for a meeting with all school
X,.. J i *1. 1- - -.kofi,.. principals, both elementary and
this end of the line as to Wiethe. . .
the Wilkes end of the ro4*^weCT | meeting will be held at
Statesville and Wilkesbo^ ^1 *^ | Wilkesboro high school and will
begin at 9:30 a. m.
Mrs. EdvMn Lnshley and
daughter. Miss Martha Louise,
and Miss Kathleen Lashley. of
}reen8horo, are visiting Mr. and
jfei, W. M 5Iark, of thU city.
included in the road imp:
scheme.”
Misa Emily McCoy and Master
J. B. McCoy, Jr., who have been
spending ■ several weeks at Mon
treal, are home for a few days.
C. B. Eller, county superinten
dent, stated this morning that
the conference was considered of
great importance and all.princi-
pals were expected to attend.
With a view of securing a better
out-going mail service for North
Wilkesboro, a special committee to
confer with the proper authorities
was appointed by the North Wil
kesboro Lions club at its semi
monthly dinner meeting which was
held at Hotel Wilkes Thursday
evening.
Undei’ the present arrangement,
there is really only one mail serv
ice from North Wilkesboro to
Piedmont North Carolina, members
of the local club pointed out during
the discussion. The Southern rail
way train leaves here at 2:10 in
the afternoon and at 4:30 the star
route carrier leaves. Both mails
reach Winston-Salem within a
short time of each other.
The Lions club voted to make
an effort to secure an out-going
morning mail service. J. S- Deans,
W. H. Clark and F. P. Eller were
named on the committee to in
vestigate the possibilities of get
ting bertter service.
A feature of Thursday evening’s
Georgia Plows Start Job of Rediicing Gitton Acreage
Guilin
Dies Frofli W
in the.AbdomA
Four Men Hdd Up Bank At
Tayhnsville Early Satuf«
• *ty Bfoming
J. H. Jackson, of Palmetto. Georgia, was one of the first cotton
growers in the south to start plowing under Cotton m accordance with
the iederal agricultural adjustment act for reduced acreage to ge in
creased price for the staple. Photo shows (left to right) Charlie
Keith, Huict Robinson and Mr. Jackson at the plows on the Jackson
farm.
RICHARDSON NOW ON UtlAL
FORIflSLIFE:nYPICKEO
FROMSPECIALVENIRETODAY
TWO CAUGHT IN WILKES
Mike Stevenoff Lived In TUa
City Part of the Timettv
Blade C^u^t
raylol*-
GRAYSON FUND
Grayson
Contributions to the
Memorial Fund follows;
Previously reported $31.00
New Donations
Ira D- Payne 1.00
program was the address by Prof. |^- P- Blair, Sr. i
W. D. Halfacre, superintendent of | Hutchens 1.00.
the city school system, who ex-lF- P- Blair, Jr. •—--- 10®
plained the object of the tax sup- J- W. Davis, Statesville 1.00,
plement. Prof. Halfacre was in-1
troduced by F. P. Eller, who with
Henry Moore, had charge of the
1$ Alleged To
Have Shot and
Killed Hinshaw
Solicitor Jones Aided In Pros
ecution By Elkin At
torney
program.
Dr. John Morris, an interne at
the Wilkes hospital, was a guest
of Jack Brame.
Buford T. Henderson was ap
pointed to present the Eagle badge
to a local Boy Scout who is soon
to be elevated to the rank of an
Eagle Scout- The Lions club has
been purchasing merit badges for
the Scouts for more than a year.
Reports were heard at Thurs
day’s meeting from the chairmen
of the finance and activities com
mittee.
Dr. H. B. Smith, president of
the club, announced the appoint
ment of W. F. Absher as chairman
of the membership committee, B.
T. Henderson as chairman of the
committee on constitution and by
laws, and iWatson Brame as chair
man of the publicity committee.
Much Interest Is
Shown by Workers
At Labor Meeting
Walter Foster Is
Sentenced to Long
Term In State Pen
COURT ON SECOND WEEK
T.
Ralph Bingham and
Bingham Representing
the Defendant
E.
Plead Guilty To Series of Rob
beries; Others Also
Given Terms
Meeting of Local Union
Well Attended Despite
Bad Weather
Is
NEW JOINERS REPORTED
Local workmen, classified as
carpenters and joiners, showed a
marked interest in the newly or
ganized North Wilkesboro Union
of the United Brotherhood of Car
penters and Joiners at the regpilar
weekly meeting at the 'urmory
Thursday evening.
The attendance was good despite
the inclement weather.
Quite a number, who had not
joined the uninn, gave their names
and became members.
Albert Beck, of Lenoir, a nepre-
sentative of the brotherhood, ad
dressed the group on various
phases of the union. Plans were
made 'for a more complete organi
zation and an effort will be made,
it was announced, to bring into the
Walter Poster, principal de
fendant in the robbery cases
which consumed nearly three
days of Superior court, was sen
tenced Saturday to from five to
12 years In “the state penitenti
ary by Judge G. V. Cowper, who
is presiding over the special term.
The series of robberies covered
the Whittington store robbery,
Dr. W. R. Triplett’s case, the
robbery of tlie summer cottages
on the Brushy Mountain and oth
ers.
Florence Foster, wife of Wal
ter, was given four months ^In
jail. Walter Parsons was sen
tenced to' 2 years on the roads
and George Parsons was sentenc
ed to 8 months on the road. 'Ver
Herschel Richardson, young
married man of the Traphill sec-
! tion, went on trial for his life to-
I day as court entered its second
j week.
! The morning session of court
was consumed with the selection
of ten jurymen and the remain
ing Jurymen were chosen short
ly after noon. The jury was
chosen from a special venire of
75 men summoned to appear tor
this case.
Richardson sat in the court
room with Mrs. Richardson while
the jury was being selected and
manifested only casual Interest
in the proceedings.
The Traphill man Is charged
-with- Slrbotlng
young
Martin Hinshaw,
man of the Elkin com
munity, to death at a swimming
pond in the Traphill section ear
eu lo o IUUU...S Hinshaw boy was
die Edmlnsten was given a three; ..-j
XX , A A shot in the back of the head,
months susspended sentence up-[ , „,x„„ d i« aid
XX jiii- -ha rw. ha,. Solicitor John K. Jones is aiu-
on the condition that she pay Her
part of the cost In the action.
The Foster trial and the Foster
Smith murder trial took up the
time of the court last week ex
cept for a few motions, and minor
details. /
ed in the prosecution by Attorney
W. M. Allen, of Elkin. • Attor
ney Ralph Bingham, of thfs city,
and Attorney T. E. Bingham, of
Boone, are represen)4tg the
i fendant.
de-
Boy Loses Arm iEdward Candjll
From Gun Shot
Roie Green, 12, of Mount Zion,
Shot In Arm On Fri
day Afternoon
Is Resting Well
Boy Who Shot Self Has Very
GhM)d Chance To
Recover
Role Green, 12-year-old son of
Lee Green, of Mt. Zion, was ser
iously injured Friday afternoon
when he fell, causing the gun he!'^««’^ today, are greatly
was carrying to dlscnarge. The!P'“'>^e'’> “
full load from the shotgun struck
Chances for the recovery of
Edward Caudill, 16, who shot
himself Just above the heart a
Im-
organizatoin every furniture fac-
bim in the left arm.
The boy was rushed
to
tory employe in the city. Inde
pendent carpenters and mechanics
will also be invited to join.
Mr. Beck is pleased with the re
ception that has been pven the
organized labor movement and de
clared that every workman has
everything to gain and nothing to
lose by joining. He said em
ployes have nothing to fear from
their employers by their activities
in the union, stating that the gov
ernment guarantees i protection
against dismissal on those grounds.
San Francisco, Jkily 30.-MJeo.
Matullch, bellboy of the . liner
Lnrline, tuld a new kind of a 'fish
story. En route to Honolulu,. he
said he was asleep near an open
porthole. Along came a flying
fish and flipped right into his
mouth.
Wilkes Hospital here. The
the
’arm
was so badly mangled that ampu
tation of the arm just above the
elbow was necessary. ,
His condition Is as favorable
as could be expected, hospital at
taches stated this morning.
Juniors To Meet At
Hall Tuesday Nigfait
A meeting of the North Wil
kesboro Council of the Junior
Order will be held at the lodge
hall Tuesday ‘(tomorrow) eve
ning at 7:30. Degree work will-
be. put on and an address by So
licitor John R. Jones will be
heard. All members are urged to
attend. ,
Mr. J. A._ Blevlnih of Hays, was
^ business Visitor in the city 8ht>*
urday. , ■,
Hospital
Ing from the Wilkes
where he Is a patient.
He is not out of danger, but
Is believed to have better than a
fifty-fifty chance ^ to get well.
Unless, unexpected complications
develop-shortly. It Is believed
that he will soon he well on the.
road to recovery
The young man Is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. S,
Two officers of-the Merc
and Farmers Bank at Tay
ville were shot down Saturday
morning in an attempt at rob
bery by four men who fled with
out any lobt. jft
T. C. Barnes, cashier of l|lhe
bank, died early Sunday morning
and Solon Little, assistant cash
ier. is in a critical condttlon at
Davis Hospital, Statesville. Both
men were rushed to the hospital'
where operations' were perform
ed.
Notified of the holdup, 'Wilkes
officers, city policemen and citi
zens of the county began- the
search for the fleeing mep, Mike
Stevenoff, who has lived hero
and at High Point at intertsls
during the past three- years, and
R. B. Black, of High Point, were
taken into custody In the Mora
vian Fails section during the day.
Stevenoff, of Bulgarian de
scent, was captured by Attorney
R. C. Jennings, of this city, a
former prohibition officer, and
Charles Watts, of Taylorsville,
while Black was taken by Bruce
Pearson, of Moravian Falls, Hon
da Pearson and another man
from Alexander county.
The car in which the four
would-be robbers escaped, head
ed In the direction of Wilkes. A
car, believed to have been the
one they-'tfted, was found- abas-
doned near Floyd Broyhlll’s near
Pores Knob.
Black and his companion were
first taken to the Wilkes county-
jail, but later were removed from
It.
“I got in a bad mess and
they’d get me sooner or later,”
officers quoted Black as saying.
He said he did not know the
names of his companions and
Just fell in with them” while In
the Taylorsville section looking
for work.
Witness Gives Accomit ■’*' J
The shooting,came, sp aurprtg-t
ingly and left '^Ife'ris In
neighborhood so stoned that ac»
(Continued on page eight)
Judge Coyi^ieF.iTo
Speak At Chm’dii
Will Be Heard At Wednes
day Night Service At
M. E. Church
Judge G. V. Cowper. now sit
ting on the Superior Court bench
of the special term of court, 'will
be the speaker at the Wednesday-
evening service at the North Wil
kesboro Methodist church. Mr.
Cowper is a speaker of power
and gives a message worthy of
being heard by all the people.
Special music will also feature
the program. Eugene Trlvette,
president o fthe Wilkes Bar As-
Boclation, will Introduce t h«
speaker.
The service will begin proi^mt-
ly at 7:46 p. m. The publ^la
cordially Invited to attend.
State’s Allotment of Next
Year’s Wheat Crop Is Set
By Farm Administrator
Washington, July 28.—Secrei^tty
Wallace today announced wheat
produrtion allotments totaling'
456,198,538 bushels in 42 states
Caudill.
Hagaman Mhkmg^Audit~
For Town of Wilkesboro
Charles B. Hagaman, a mem
ber of- the pharies 'B. Hagaman
auditing flrnitof Hickory, is now
engaged in miaklng pn audit of
the books ol the town of Wil
kesboro,
and 2,233 counties as the basis on
which benefit payments wih kn
made to farmers nnder the volun
tary domestic allotment plan put
in force by fan®'admin staatars.
eqi ej0M sjeaseoRsd AntiouoH
The allotment figurea by eonn-
ties for, North Carolina. follows;
Alleghany, 3,806; Ashe, 15,3$6tQ
Avery, 1.474.' Caldwell, 25,640;
Surry, 45,850; Watauga, 4.112;
Wilkes, 53J)60; Yadkinw 54464; g
Stokes, 50,0^.
JO
Muttem Home Agaki
New York, July S0.---Jljnmy
Mattern, smiling us ,brq^ly as
when he ,|oA^ away June 3 -to
fly around the world, .completed
D
I Mr. Hagaman is well known |'the cirDU^’t«tay, but ils”
locally, haring b^n employed, to of setting, a solo-record lay
make several audjts lor the led with the wreckage of his
Ila
^towns and ooxnty.|
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