OF THE TORY
r^rciade Val-
t"^pte*tber 3;
1^ Speak
■By RUTH UNNEYj
es Tax Rulmgs
Issued At Raleigh
Speak
int to « splendid
. the Ammal Alle-
ijr oehool eoarentlott'
^coaTene In the Olade
byierlan ohorch on
September '3. There will
Blons; Homing and
A fenoirahlp dinner
-aerred at the church at
hoar. It la expected that
■of the Sunday schools ol
atlons et the county
STO liurge delegations pres-
phases of tha Sunday
work will be discussed in
BTentlon and It is reqnest-
bat the delegates come pre-
to participate In the open
on the New Things Being-
In The Sunday School,
lems To Be Met, The Growth
I Sdhool or other subjects of
St In the Sunday School
le principal speaker will he
, Shnford Peeler, General
ry of the North Carolina
School Association. Other
us leaders will have Im-
tant places on the program.
A pennant will be given the
kpol having the largest attend-
.based on miles traveled.
S-4o&test is open to all the
aSsay schools of the county ex-
?t the one which the conven-
Q convenes and others within
iaBe of this one.
References in the interesting
story by AmoU Coffey about ;Wil-
kesboro's colorful backgiimnd
(taken from the Watauga Demo-
CNt)> . to the Cleveland^ “T&fy
Oak* on the courthouse grounds,
starts speculations as to the va^
ied tales spun about the historic
tree, most of which are fapsiliar.to
the natives. Historical ba4ground
for the following story was olh
tained from “Historical Sketches
of Wilkes County,” by John Crhch,
newspaperman who formerly lived
at Moravian Falls, published in
1905. This version, calldd “A Tory
Revival,” was written by Rutb
Linney, of the Dellaplane com
munity, in 1922, while she was a
student of the North Wilkesboro
high school, and was printed in the
Winston-Salem Joumal-ScntineL in
1929. "Loony Lou” is a fictitious
character.
thicket (’twas like them to get be-
Merckants Are Warned to Collect
Penny On All Sale* Over
10 Cents
Raleigh, Aug. 26.—Mercantile
hiirf a tree) at party which j myriad application of
had gone ahead. However, all es-,' '
caped in the end except the colonei
who was ft very hefty man; weigh
ing'over three hondi^ pounds; he
was taken prisoner and taken to
the home of a man named Cutbirth
by the Tories. He broke off green
i^trigs as the queer gang went
the general sales tax, will be en
hanced by rulings of the state, reve
nue department Thursday after
noon, the first of the^calllng on
the vendors to collect a penny on
all sales where the fatal exceeds
10 cents, and the second to levy the
dpwn New River, on their way to ^n manufiwiturers or producers
Watauga, where they pitched
camp and waited.
“The morning Cleveland wm
captured Joseph Calloway and his
brother-in-law, Berry Tony, called
at Duncan’s to see the colonel on
a matter o’ business, and heard of
the stolen horses and the hunt for
who sell from trucks or to e^b-
Rshments or pass their goods
from these trucks to retail sto^.
The failure of the tax to produce
the haH-million expected of it for
July was not regarded serious in
view of the newness of the efforts
to use it in revenue production,
them. Just then came the sound gut Harry McMullan, director of
of guns on the upper part of the tjjg g^jes tax division, shows in the
plantation and, rushing there, Luiings why the state is. losing an
they were told Cleveland luul been imniense amount of revenue.
taken prisoner. Upon tWs intflU;] The loss in gross collections has Beets! and Turnips. Snap
Quettioiik mod
,^i8wert For
Farmers
g.
^ New
H^ftamiier 9 v
Question: How can poultry be
protected from chicken pox?
Answer;. Remove all 'affected
birds from the flock.’^Put them
in a pen as far away from the
main flock as possible. See'that
all stagnant water is taken sway
as this breeds mosquitos -and
these pests transmit the chicken
pox. The entire flock should then:
be;.vaccinated with pox vaccine
by pulling five feathers from the
leg of the bird and, with a small
brush, applying the vaccine to
the holes where the feathers were
pulled. This treatment will cost
about one cent a bird.
Question; What vegetables
may be planted now for the fall
garden? ^
Answer: Root and leafy vege
tables that may he planted dar
ing August and September are
Kale, Spinach, Lettuce,, Mustard,
The annual Q reunion of the
Woodruff clan will be hpid' at El-
■ktn Valley Baptist church, 2 1-3
miles north of Elkin, on hlghmy
f nvUsd to illlmd and
wen filled basket as dliuw
ibe.serifod ex the ground^. '
Read Joumal.dPatriot Ads.^.
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tMmul Buriness CoUege Weekly
News Flashes
———By OOtXBOB BXPOBtEB .
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NOTICE
Ih Carolina, Wilkes Comity.
_ 'Virtue of a power contained
'sT certain deed of trust executed
kC. R. Triplett (single), to the
igned trustee for the Bank
Wilkesboro, said deed of
bein^ recorded in the office
[the reg^ter of deeds of iWilkes
!tJto Book 166, page 111, and
Of'said deed of trust have
. been complied with and demand
de on said trustee for sale, I will
^ursday September 14. 1933,
'one o’clock p. m., at the court-
door in Wilkesboro, N. C.,
(or for sale to the highest bidder
cash, the following tracts of
to-wit:
ig at the mouth of Cop-
Rock branch where said
sh^ows into Lewis Fork
crtnence up Lewis Fork creek
writh said creek to A. J. Prof-
Comer; thence with A- J.
>£fit’s line to a poplar comer;
:e with A. J. Proffit’s line to
.._>urwood in A. J. Proffit’s line;
'^nce with A. J. Proffit’s line and
E. Brown’s line to a locust:
ncc with the line of the Lindsay
plett 40-acre tract to the top of
blob; thence with the line of
kit from the state cf North
tfolina to C. R. Triplett, being
9379, to P. E. Brown’s
thence with P. E- Brown’s
flat rock on top of the
l|(e, being the corner of C. R.
jpiett, J. A. Eller and P. E.
f)wn; thence with J. A. Eller’s
to Copperas Rock branch with
It was an oak tree, but one had
to recognize it by the bark. Stand
ing bleakly there, it was still an
ornament—that charred . skeleton
tree written over with miles of
history. The courtyard was beau
tiful by moonlight and the insuf
ficient lights of “Old Town” show
ed the forlomness of the old tree,
which was something like a sad,
old human heart ’full of rich and
sombre remini scencies.’ Under the
dim, sputtering ray of the lamps
and the cold, pale moon, the dying
oak assumed a little of the weird
grrandeur of old tombs and sanctu
aries and ghostly white spires in
some abbey woods. Of such a
scene Thackeray wrote, “I felt as
one who had been walking belowe
the sea, and treading amidst the
bones of shipwrecks.”
For old tales, ghost stories, and
bygone legends, everyone went to
“Loony Lou,” whose cabin had
great, green cabbages up to the
doorstep and white honeysuckle
over the windows. “Loony Lou”
was forty-four, tall, stalwart, and
vigorous, and, though a spinster
and a man-hater, unhedged by the
usual old maid’s preciseness. She
was a descendant of Daniel Boone,
resembled Becky Boone’s picture
on the sack of self-rising four, and,
as she constantly swore, “had
hauled the dirt that made every-1
body in Wilkes county.”
You oughter know somethin’ of
ole man Ben Cleveland! (This was
Lou’s dialect and way of telling
the tale of the “Tory Oak”). He
uster live down on the Hickerson |
gence, they raked up a band of 30 been serious enough to make the
stout warriors with Robert Cleve-j state’s departmentalists worry,
land, the colonel’s brother, leading .They see an immediate necessity
the party and rushed into the Tory for a larger collection force. The
camp. The Tories were forcing need grows partially out of the un-
Col. Ben to sign passes for them |willing;ness of merchants to col-
to use in their devilish plots. He lect the tax and probably more on
was sitting on a log and, as hejaccount of thier misunderstanding
was a poor scribe anyway, was of it. The two rulings today are
writing as slowly and deliberately 'designed to boost the collections,
as he dared, in order to gain time. The results in August will be
party,
When he saw the relief
Cleveland rolled off his log and
shouted:
“ ‘Huzza for brother Bob! That’s
right, give ’em hell ’
“Just a. little spell after this
Cap’n Riddle made a raid into the
Yadkin valley, took David and
John Witherspoon prisoners, and
would promise not to hang them
upon the hard condition that they
swear allegiance to the king and
bring the O'Neal mare from their
father’s bam. On a pretense of
bringing the filly, these boys gath
ered together a band of men and
took the Tory camp by surprise.
When several of the Tories were
dead, and three, including Riddle,
were captured, they had cause to
reflect upon the sudden and unex-
pecte manner in which John and
David Witherspoon had returned
with the O’Neal mare. But these
thoughts did not trouble ’em long.
Next morning saw three grotesque
ornaments dangling from the top
of the Cleveland Oak, with their
outsides turning black as their
hearts, in the sun.
“Another time the Tory rascals
arrested John Doss, Colonel Cleve-
farm—them Hickersons out of i land’s faithful overseer, for a rob
known shortly. Unless there is a
big improvement more workers
will be immediately demanded, it is
believed.
ROARING RIVER GIRL
WED TO HICKORY MANi
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Pardue, of!
Roaring River, announce the
beans and some early maturing
varieties of sweet corn will also
provide a variation from the lear
fy vegetables. All these vege
tables mature within 80 days
and, as the first killing frost In
the Piedmont section is usually
around November first, they will
all mature before frost.
Question: Where can I get in
structions for making jelly and
preserves ?
Answer; Extension Circular
number 113 carries recipes for
making all kinds of jellies, jams
preserves, and pickles and a copy
of this will be mailed free upon
application to F. H. Jeter, Agri
cultural Editor, State College.
Raleigh, N. C. The instructions
marriage of their daughter. An- j contained in this circular are
alee Elizabeth, to William Vance [Very concise but we suggest that
Cooke, of Hickory, N. C. The > you also advise with your « oun-
marriage was solemnized .it Wll- j ty home demonstration agent for
kesboro by Rev. Seymour Taylor,
the Methodist minister. Aug. 19.
The young couple will make their
home at Conley Springs.
Aunt Of Miss Helen Bostic
Dies At Home At Randlenuin
Miss Mary Bostick, an aunt of
Miss Helen Bostick, of Greens
boro, died at her home at Ran-
dleman Friday. Miss Helen Bos
tick Is a member of tt-D faculty
of Wilkesboro high school.
personal instruction.
C. Bowie, Jr. Passes
State Bar Examination
T. C. Bowie, Jr., son of the
distinguished attorney, Tam C.
Bowie, of West Jefferson, was
among the successful candidates
‘in the state bar examination giv
en by the Supreme court August
21. The list was announced Fri
day.
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Ths August number at tbs Nstionsl;
Mrin. pabUdMd by tbs Aitooisted;
StudsDti of tbs National Buaineaa Oot-
Itgs. will be mailed Monday. VUl:
lasua has two pages devoted to Ma-;
tlonal gnduatea at Pulaaki, Virginia,’
and the Industries thsy repTMent. Tost,
may secure a copy at the newa atand’^
or by writing or calling at tbs college
office.
The college management aumanow
the election of Mr. nunklin T. Obsae
of New Bedford, Maeeaebusetts, to the
college faculty. Mr. Ohaee la an bonor
graduate of Boetmi XTnlveralty with
B. B, A. degree and for the past two
years waa head of the Accounting De
partment of Puerto Rico nniverslty. Mr.
Cbaoe haa four yeara' accountl^ ex-
perlenca with the Charlea T. Bltten-
hpuae Company. Certified Public Ac.
oountanta of Boaton and three years’
experience In Banking and Credit
Tnolons. He will be in charge of the
Banking and Plnaooe and muhin^
Calculating Department and aaaoolate
in Higher Accountancy and Business
Administration.
The registration department repoirte
a heavy enrollment from all sections
of the country. At the close of busi
ness Friday, advance registrations were
double thoee of last year. This con
dition has existed since the college
began accepting enroUmentc In July
for the fall term which begins Sep
tember 6.
The National Buslnees College fully
appreciates the Importance of Short
hand In its School of Secretarial
Science and will offer classes in the two
standard shorthand systems of the Ei^-
Ush speaking people: namely, Oregg and
^tman. More than es% of the ahort-
jwnd work of the EngUah speaking
people le done with these two systems
of shorthand; and although hundreds
of systems of shorthand have been
offered to the public, these are the two
that have received recognition as de-
pednable systems of phonetic writing.
While a good system of shorthand le
important to the stenogprapher. It is
more Important to attend a college
that offers the right kind of training
in the system selected and maintains
fixed standards of efficiency that se
cures and bolds the confidence of the
employing public. The cheapest and
easiest Is rarely ever the best In any
thing, and this Is especially true In
education. It Is also Important to the
emmenuses to have a strong and finan
cially responsible school Introducing
vhem to the public. The National
College meets these requlre-
.lenis. a
At tae chapri wnelMe Friday
ing tbe foUowlng were gradu
ated: Helen CBadya OmVM, dau«^taro
Mr. and Mrs. Omw O-avas, at Boaoofca,
▼hXlnla, graduated lom tbe Beere-
taiM Department of tbe School of
niiiiatarlwl Science. Susie Otavas Fv-
ley, a slater, graduated In 1081 sad
slnoe tbat time has been employed by
Uaa * MeVltty, Ine., Salem. VUgtola.
Mlae Ibdma Kathryn Sigmon, of Boa-
noke, graduated from the stenognqpbio
depaitment of tbe School of Oeoiatarlal
Sdenoe. Both theea girls were aetivs
members of tbe Girls' Club sad wlB
prove eaoeedlngiy capable stcnogimh-
en and eeaetsilee. Mlse Kteanor Wat
son,' of .Vlntqn. passed her 136-wcsd test
with 97 3-3 per cent and 1 1-3 credits.
Bdmond Hitchcock of FsyettevlUs.
West Virginia, passed »is 135-word
shorthand test with 90 per cent and
t l-a eredlta. Other shortband tests
passed during the week are as fellows:
Levi B. Good, Bosnia, Shorthand 0,
95 per cent, 3 eredtte: Ferry Johnaon,
Clifton For^, Virginia, Hforthand B,
08 1-3 per cent, 3 credits; Thelma
Nance, Bedford, Virginia, Shorthand
B, 98 1-2 per cent, 3 credits; Ortena
Bo"-5r, Pordtown. Tennessee, HiOrt-
hand B, 95 1-3 per cent, 3 credits. An
exceptionally fine grade of work has
been done by tbe students of tbe sum
mer school, and many of them will be
completing their courses early In tbe
fall, thereby making additional room
lor tboae who find it necessary to be
gin their courses later In the fall ses
sion.
Mr. Thomas Short of Roanoke, has
been recommraded to a part-time
bookkeeping potion while completing
his WOTk for tbe B. G. B. Degree. Mias
Vivien Davidson, who has been In the
college reviewing her shorthand course
for tbe past two or three weeks baa
accepted a position with the RetaU
Merchants' Association. Mr. Bobert
Lucado, a student in tbe School of
Business Admlnlstrtalon, bae accepted
a position with the Roanoke Welding
Co. A number of other students have
been recommended to splendid poel-
tlons during tbe past week.
Miss Verna Martin of Stuart, Vlr-
ginla, was promoted to the Offl« Train
ing Department of the School of Sec
retarial Science this week, and Is a
candidate for graduation In the Secre
tarial Department.
Tbe fall session of the college opens
Tuesday, September 6. Interested high
school and college graduates may se
cure a 74-r*ge catalog and year-book
giving full Information about the col
lege by addressing Registrar. Box 3059,
Roanoke, Virginia.—Adv.
whose family Rufe Martin
two brides when the old
•
stole bery which they themselves had
folks Committed and sent him on to his
reward by the same horrible route
of the Tory Oak.
“It was not long before Cleve-
wouldn’t even speak to him, be
cause all Martins had a vagabond
streak in them, and the Hickerson’s
favorite pastime was intermarry in’'land had the traitor. Bill Harrison
with the Gwyns. Anyhow,, old Ben'in his hands and, in spite of his
Cleveland was a brave and good; claiming that he had invented per-
man. I’ve heard may own grand- j petual motion, the colonel strung
father say a.s much, and he knew j him up in the notorious oak and
it from hi.s father. Colonel Cleve-1 sent him after Doss, but to a hot-
land was a Whig soldier, fighting ter climate. I expect. Runmr says
’gainst King George and in these' Cleveland’s orders were:
.. , V • .settlements he killed five and forty I ‘"Run down the hill, Buck, and
S. Triplett’s 1im to the begin--po^ies than they killed'butt him into eternity; we’ll show
’ibouH^O Colonel Cleveland was I little Billy perpetual motion.’
ed by C. R. Triplett to J. A. Milly Cleveland’s uncle-1 “There were several more Tones
jin-law, or dady-in-law—it ain’tTory Oak, and they
never been straightened out which.'were all buried at no great dis-
[Aunt Milly, in her lifetime, told I tance from the tree- Some of their
I hull o’ the tale, for she never bones have been ploughed up
stopped talking but once, when' thereabouts- It is strange, if
somebody interrupted her, and ^ there is any truth in han’ts, that
Uhen she said, “as I was going on,their ghosts do not stalk about as
I to .^:iy.” and started on again [well as them of the men who were
“James Coyle and John Brown | hanged and put in the stocks in the
.were a couple of the thievingest • old hig cabin which jras used as a
1 Scotch Tories that ever hollered i courthouse and jail. Tis said if you
i'G-id Save the King!’ They plun- go to that spot at midnight you
dcred all through Lincoln county can still see men hanging. n
land drove off Major George Wil- Wilkes county and around the
'fong'.s line, fat horses, using Mis’icounty seat, Lou concluded,
iWilfoiig’s new clothesline for hal-|‘*^here were in the eaily days and
ter.s. The major and his neigh-
'bors tracked the ragmuffins to
.Wilkesboro and got back the
ihor'-es. but it took that hero ofj^'^o .old
[Kings Mountain, ole Ben Cleveland Oak.”
his 12th dav of August, 1933-
J. .M. BROWN,
istee for Bank of North W.l
kesboro.
kg 14-22-28. Sept 5-12
“A Little Neater—
Little Better”
‘THAT’S THE WAY WE
DO THE JOB
‘Right-Way Shoe
Shop
c.
G. PLEXICO. Prop.
Telephone 08
still are—many talcs terribly in
teresting and romantic and skeery
enough to put an edge on life—
Ben Cleveland’s Tory
Ursula Blevins
(Pupil of Dr. J. R. Minniss)
• Private Lessons in
PIANO AND THEORY
. OF MUSIC
Studio Wilkesboro
OPENS SEPT. 4th
2 PER CENT
DBCOUNT
l«n 1933
paid
County Taxes
before
m or
Sept. 1,1933
H; Ferguson,
.Ca«nty Accountant,
,m^weboro, N. C.
I himself, to nab them as they were
I slinking bacy to Ninety-Six and
string them up in the old oak tree
[ north of the courthou.se, in Old
Town, with that same clothesline.”
1 Of winter nights Ia)ony Lou
would sit up until the cock crew
'recounting other tales of the Tory
.Oak by the glow of pine-knots-
“By 1781 Colonel Cleveland was
owning some fine land called “The |
Old Fields’ in that part of Wilkes'
I which was later given to Ashe-
■ Once Cleveland went over there to
[see about his crops, taking one of
»his negroes ■with him, and staid aU
.night ■with his renter, Jesse Dun-
(can. That infamous old Tory,
Cap’en William Riddle, knew well
I that Colonel Cleveland, the leader
of the ‘Bull Dogs’ who had won so
'much fame at Kings Mountain,
I was not far away, and that no one
would make a welcomer prize for
the British. That night he stole
Cleveland’s horses so he would
think they had wandered away to
eat grass and maybe follow them.
Mrs. Duncan got wind of the am
buscade but wouldn’t tell the col
onel, for fear the Tories would
take revenge against her family.
By inquiring after the health of all
her countless kindred in the east-
■ward of Wilkes, she set about to
delay Col- Ben, who had armed
himself and his servant and had
already sent the latter and two un
armed men on Hie chase of the
horsee- Tbe Tories fired from a
MISS ELLEN
ROBINSON
Teacher of Piano and Voice
Announces the Opening of
Her Studio on
Monday, Sept. 11th
North Wilkesboro High School
Building
NOTICE!
Pay Your Town Taxes Now,
and avoid cost of advertisiiig.
Only a few days left
P. L. LENDERMAN,
Tax Ci^ector, 7«wn of
Wilkesboro, N. C. '
IT
HURM!
PRICE5G0
upsEprm
1
!E»
KE LVINATM
O NLY a few days more and Kelvina-
tor prices go up—from $99 50 to
1112.00 on the lowest priced model and
a much greater increase on the larger
models. You can save at least $12.50
by placing your order now.
Even the substantial sav’ngs which
you can effect by purchasing your Kel-
vinator before September 1, however.
are small compared to the savings
which you will effect through the use
of this outstanding household appli
ance. Investigate for yourself with
an open mind and you will find that
I'ou cannot afford. NOT to have a
Kelvinator.
Kelvinators are extremely reason
able in first cost and the cost of opera
tion is even more reasonable.
And here is an important point:
Terms on Kelvinators are such that
even the family in very iterate cir-
jumstances is able to, |RU?chase one now
ind b^n to.’ enioF the Advantages and
economies whiclf tome .through the use
)f an electric refrigerator.
Don’t delay! Save money now and
later by placing your order for a Kel
vinator' before September 1. ' i
Southern Public UtUities Company
‘‘ELECTRICITY IS CHEAP—USE IT FR^LY”
PHONE 420
NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C.'
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