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-VOL. xxvn, NO. 86
Pumif^. Mondays
NORTH WILKESBORO, N. G, THURSDAY, SEPT. 21,
$1.00
IN THE gfAlE—llJfO OUT OF THE STi
fonshyMoffl^dn
^Baptists Sept. 28
t- '>
PitHnotioiT Meeting Will Be
Held At Mount Pleasant
Church Thursday
PERR\^fORGAN COMING
Splendid Program Announced;
All-Day Prgoram To Be-
; gin ^t 10 A. M.
On Thuraday, September 28th,
beginning at ten o'clock in the
morning thore will be held an
Associationhl Promotion Meet
ing tor the churches of the
Brush3T iMoantain Baptist Assocl-
r ation at the Mount Pleasant Bap
tist church. This meeting is in
accord with action taken by the
last annual session of the Asso-
.. .Jlatlon In requesting Mr. Perry
Ib ^^organ of Raieigh. and Dr. Clay
I. Hudson of Nashville. Tenn., to
arrange tor such a meeting. It
Is expected that there will be
_ representatives from each of the
I-
twenty-eight churches of the .As
sociation in attendance. All pas
tors, deacons, church treasurers
and finance committees, officers
of the missionary societies and
of the Young People s organiza
tions, together with any other in
terested laymen or women, are
expected to •.ttend.
The object of this meeting, it
Is announced, is to confer with
and offer help to the leaders of
the churches in order to bring
about sounder and more success
ful financial plans. Both .Mr. Mor
gan and Dr. Hudson have had
wide experience in such matters,
. , It is said, and will be able to
^ bring practical suggestions of
great value to those who are in-
r terested in finding and working
' better plans of Kingdom finance.
^ Inasmuch as the Mount Pleas
ant church has had notice of this
meeting h»t a few days, all those
attending during the morning
and afternoon sessions are re
quested to carry their own lunch.
, Xhe Associational Executive
has requested the
f Mount Pleasant church not to
F furnish lunch for the visitors.
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T. £ Sto
Wilkes Dry Delegate
Prominent Educator Will Be Voted Upon In Repeal Election
In November; More Than 1,000 Names Placed Upon Pe
tition To Be Presented Board of ElectiMS
Prof. T. E. Story, principal of
Wilkesboro high school and
prominent civic le.ider, was chos
en as Wilkes county’s anti-repeal
'candidate at a meeting of the
Wilkes county unit of the United
Dry Forces of North Carolina at
! the courthouse Monday evening.
The selection of the well
known educator had the unani
mous approval of the dry organ-
j ization.
Wilkes county will have one
delegate to the constitutional
convention to vote on the ques
tion of repealing the Eighteenth
Amendment, if a convention is
called. Those favoring repeal are
expected to select a candidate
■within the near., future. They
have until October 7 to file their
petition with the county board of
elections.
In order to place a candidate
in the field, a petition bearing
the names of 247 qualified voters
must be presented to the hoard
of elections. It was learned yes
terday that the various petitions
being circulated by the dry forc
es already bear the signatures of
more than 1,000 citizens.
It has been emphasized that
those opposing repeal are expect
ed to vote against a convention
and for the anti-repeal candidate,
while those favoring repeal will
vote for the convention and for
the repeal candidate.
A famous 300 year old clock
which standf 14 feet hig.. and
made of solid black oak is tick
ing time again. A 20 year old
girl clock maker. Miss Ixmise
Weyer, succeeding in starting it
Wilkes Man, Life Termer, Killed
In Prison Break In Louisiana
Weyer, succeeding in siarung ii ortiiTC rADDIFR
after many men experts had fail- STAR ROUTE CARRIE
ed. fThe clock has been in the \ KILLED IN ACCIDENT
lobby of
years.
a New York hotel for
Federal Highway
Number Is Sought
For Route No. 16
Wilmington, Sept. 18.—B. F.
- Lane, star route mall carrier be
tween Wilmington and Hamp
stead, was fatally injured this
afternoon at 1:30 o’clock - when
; his automobile overturned on
I the Market street road just east
of Seven Mile Post.
Movement Is Already
Way: Is -\n laiportant and
Scenic Iloute
Mrs. Clayton Davis
Under Claimed By Death
IMPROVEMENT NEEDED
I Passed Away Tnraday Afternoon
! .At Davis Hospital In
Statesville
Wife of John Anderson
Learns That He Died In
JaU Break
GRANDFATHER HERE
(Prom
A movement is under way u, jj^nnie Lee uavis. wiie oi ,
secure a federal highway number, Clayton Davis, popular local taxi married a man
Wednesday’s Winston-
Salem Journal)
A name—the name of John
Anderson, life termer—shc>t to
death—caught and held the eye
of Mrs. Dollle King Anderson,
who lives on the ClemmonsvlUe
Road near Winston-Salem, as
she read the other day of a
bloody prison break at Marks-
vllle. La., and of the bloodier
aftermath.
The name, you see. had held
. ; 1. , „.i,o of' particular significance for her
Mrs. Nannie Lee Davis, ixife of
With Addresses By Congressman
Lambeth and General McCIod^
Is Subscriber For
Twenty-Five Years
“Pop” Warner, now dean of
great American football' coaches,
is on the job at Temple Univer
sity, launching a new coaching
career. He formerly coached at
Carlisle and at Stanford U.
Revival To Begin
At First Baptist
Church on Sunday
Series of Services To Be Con
ducted by the Pastor, Rev.
Eugene Olive
TWO SERVICES DAILY
(Continued on back page)
Dry Speakings
Prohibition Forces To Meet .At
Vaniioy .\nd .Antioch
ifor No. 16 from the Tennessee' driver, was claimed by death in
! - ‘ riflvin Hosoital at StalGsville
'state line at Trade by way of^’^'*“ '
I I Tuesday afternoon at l.ou
{Jefferson, North Wilkesboro.: condition had been
Taylorsville and Newton to the serious for two weeks and little
South Carolina line. hope had been held out for her
According to sponsors of the recovery. , no knowledge
. Airs Davis was the daughter ’
this route is not only * | • ruorUo iiuhon whereabouts.
but it ^ | Strangely convinced that she
, . , . She was 22 years of age. | received news, though
; is also one of the most scenic in j ghe is survived by her . bus- ^ husband, Mrs. An-
ago when she married a man
named John Anderson in New
ark, N. J., and with their tiny
baby, was abandoned by him
more than a year later. Since
that time she said she had not
seen him, had not heard from
of his
I movement,
I one of great importance.
r
Prohibition rallies will he belli
at Antioch schoolhouse and at
Vannoy during th? coming w»c’:
to organize for the November
election.
Rev. Seymour Taylor will
speak at the Millers schoolhouse
at Vannoy Saturday night and
Attorney F. J. McDuffie will de
liver an address at Antioch
schoolhouse Sunday afternoon at
3 o’clock.
Every interested citizen is in
vited to attend these meetings.
I the western part of the state. | ^and. her father and mother one —- Louisiana authorl-
.-.^rting at the Tennessee line, ^ .mother. Paul and one ^ description and „.e services when there
the route directs the niotonsts jjjgg Kathleen Bishop. ! . , ■ .
Next Sunday marks the begin
ning of a series of evangelistic
services at the First Baptist
church, coiiduclo.1 by the pastor.
Rev. Eugene Olive, assisted ’oy
the choir and members of the
congregatior. Sunday services
will be held at 11 a. m. and at
8 p. m. with •week-day services
at an early morning hour and at
7:30 p. m.
At a meeting of the board of
deacons this week, it was decided
to make a house-to-house vi.sita-
tion on next Sunday afternoon to
extend to all the people of North
Wilkesboro an invitation to at
tend the services. People of all
other churches are heartily in
vited to attend and take part in
no
Free Acts Are Witne^wA^ Hjr
Great Thronig; Amonf ipltfu
Ever Seen Locally .
L. W. Wood, of North Wil
kesboro, Ronte a, WB8 a vlaltor
In the city Monday and renew
ed his subscription to The
Jonmal-Patrlot.
Mr. Wood said he had been
a subscriber to the P«P«r for
26 years and has never had his
paper discontinued at any
time.
Grier Mflls Nine
Wins First Half
EXHIBITS excellent
PubUcWeddtBg Was Stiw^
In Frwit of Grandstand^ ,
‘ Last Evening
The Oreat Wilkes Fair, whteh
is now in progress, opened a*-;
spiolously Tuesday ■wftn a ertmi,
estimated at I2,u00, tbroaStdic
the midway and visiting tli*
htblt hall and other sections
the fairgrounds auring trie datSi
Tuesday was “School Chtt-
dren’s Day” and thousands cam#
to the city and*‘t»eik advant"^
Wilkesboro DrfiSIted 8 To 5! /^e opportunity to kttend wli
At Fair Grounds Satur
day Afternoon
Grier Mills defeated
boro 8 to 5 here Saturday after
noon in a first half playoff con
test and earned the right to ent
er the “little world series” for
the Wilkes League champion
ship.
Both teams showed up well in
the contest and a lucky drive
along the foul line which led to
three runs decided the game In
favor of the cotton mill boys.
Prohibition Rally
Sunday Afternoon
Rev. Eugene OUve Will Deliver
Address At Wilkesboro M.
I E. Church Sunday
The prohibition or anti-repeal
forces of Wilkesboro township
will hold a rally at Wilkesboro
Methodist church Sunday after
noon at 2:30 o’clock.
An address dealing with the
question of repeal will be deliv- j
out cost. _ '
The fair was formally opennd
with a parade which started at
Wilkes-1 the corner of D and Tenth
’ Streets. The Regimental band of
the 105th Engineers, National
Guard of Charlotte, led the pro
cession. The band was followed
by Company A, local National
Guard urit, cars bearing dlgna-
taries of the occasion and others..
A number of floats were entered
In the parade by local firms.
General Manus McCloskoy,
commanding officer a t Fort
Bragg, Fayetteville, delivered the
opening address at the falf-,
grounds.
General McCloskey was so Im
pressed with hls visit here that
he promised fair officials he
would send airplanes and a bat
tery for the fair next year.
A brief talk was also aeiivered
by Congressman Walter Lam
beth, of Thomasville. He was In
troduced by Mayor J. A. Rous
seau.
The exhibits this year are
worthy of display and the armory
□ ueaiiuil icpcoi nut lyc uc... . J t ,
ered by Rev. Eugene Olive, pas- hall has been visited 'by large
tor of the First Baptist church.
Leaders of the township forces
are especially anxious that a
large audience hear Rev. Mr.
Olive’s message and the public
generally is invited.
numbers who are interested in
the excellent products brought in
by the farmers.
The midway attractions are
among the best offered by any
show on the road and the free
acts are considered unusually
good.
Grandstand spectators wltness-
To Be Held a7 AVUkesboro M. E.jed excellent performances on the
CTiurch On Friday !
band a concert in addition
The fourth quarterly confer-! to the^^gular features that arec.
Quarterly Meeting
ence for Wilkesboro Methodist being offered tw;ice daily.
through the scenic New River \ impressive funeral service
section and offers one of conducted from the home oi,°
details concerning imprisonment
I
Yesterday she received a reply
s most beautiful drives. ' Mrs. Davis’ parents, Mr. and Mrs,, j j. Jeansonnes of
Efforts to obtain improvement Bishop, near Wilkesboro yester- ^ ‘ i^h. The descrip-
in their
Junior Rally
8. O. McGuire To Speak At Hon
da September SOth
on the sections between Trade | afternoon at 3 o’clock ^ T^’^photograph made
and Warrensville and between {jjev. Seymour Taylor, pastor of'
Glendale Springs and Millers, wilkesboro Methodist church.
Creek apparently are to be sue-j j„(er„ient was made in the ceme-
cessful and when these sections' jgry near St. Paul’s Episcopal
Home Coming Day
Old
S. O. McGuire, prominent El-
'^.kin citizen and for many years
^ a leader in Surry county affairs,
will d.eliver an address at a Jun
ior Order rally at Ronda high
school auditorium Saturday eve
ning, September 30, at 7:30
o’clock.
♦ The Elkin man is a forceful
speaker arid the public is Invited
to hear him.
All members of the North Wil
kesboro, Cllngman and Elkin
Councils, J. O. U- A. M., are es-
^ peclally Invited to attend the ral-
. ly-
are improved, the entire road | church in Wilkesboro
will be in excellent condition.
These links will be built, it is
understood, within the next few
months.
North Wilkesboro citizens,
who are Interested in obtaining
a federal number for No. 16 are
! requesting that citizens of Jef
ferson. Taylorsville and Newton
join them in urging consider
ation of this move.
Baseball Game Will Be
Played At Moravian Falls
Mr. N. G. Snyder, well known
citizen of Wilkesboro, Route 1,
was a business visitor in the city
a few hours yesterday.
Members To Gather
FYlendshlp On Sunday
At
identification positive, Mrs. An
derson declared.
John Anderson was one of 11
long-term convicts who started a
(Continued on nack page)
R. C. Rivers Dies
At Davis Hospital
Many former members and at
tendants of Friendship Methodist,
church, located near Millers | Publisher of WataU^ Demo-
Creek, are expected to attend
Sunday which has been designat
ed as Home Coming Day.
An appropriate program has
crat Passed Away Monday
Afternoon
^ ^ Boone, Sept. 18—R. C. Rivers,
been arranged and everybody Is: 72. one of this section’s best
invited to attend and join In the known citizens, died at Davis
“get-acqualnted hour.'
■ — :
Miss Pauline Jarvis Becomes Bride
Of Mr. Henderson In Public Wedding
A throng of people, filling the
grandstand and all available
space adjacent to the platform
at the Great Wilkes Fair, last
night witnessed in a hushed sil-
lence befitting the sacredness of
of the high school.. Mr. Hender
son holds a position with the
Wilkes Bakery, having been con
nected with the local firm for
several years.
The beautifully impressive
Due to the fact that the auto
mobile race will be in progress
at the Great Wilkes FWr Satur
day afternoon, the North Wllkes-
boro-'Wllkesboro baseball game
Trill be played at Moravian Falls
about 2 o’clock. The contest Is
wpected to attract a large
crowd.
Ithe occasion the public weddingceremony was begun with prayer
uniting Miss Pauline Jarvis, of!by Rev, Mr. Jarvis who thanked
.the Dellaplane community, and j God for the institution of mar-
" ’ " riage and invoked the blessings
Horton Reunion
A reunion of the Horton fam
ily will be held at the old Hor
ton place on Ne'w River near
Boone Sunday. All relatives of
the family are invited.
Mrs. A. W. Horton and .Mrs.
W. R. Nefwtoa,' of thto ^ty' are
spending today In Charlotte.
Mr. James Henderson., of Wilkes-
boro, members of two of the
county’s best known families.
Rev. N. T. Jarvibr, an uncle of
the bride and one of the most
widely known Baptist ministers
In Wilkes, officiated, using the
Impressive ring ceremony.
The bride was given In mar
riage by her father, while Mr.
Frank Henderson, a brother of
the groom, was best man.
The wedding climaxed a ro
mance begun several years ago
when Miss Jarvis- and Mr. Hen-
deiium attended - Wilkesboro high
school. They are 'both graduates
of the Almighty upon those Join
ed together by the sacred vows.
Relatives of the bride and
groom were on the platform dar
ing the ceremony.
The bride Is the attractive
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. M. —
Jarvis, while Mr. Henderson Is Frarik McGee, of
hospital, Statesville, yesterday
afternoon after an illness of one
■week. He was prominently iden
tified with civic and social life of
this community, and represented
Watauga county In the general
assembly In 1929.
He was publisher of the Wa
tauga Democrat, one of the old
est newspapers In these moun
tain counties. The newspaper
celebrated its 46th birthday this
year.
Mr. Rivers was a shrlner, a
director In the Watauga Build
ing and Loan association, chair
man of the American Red Cross
of the county, and was a recog
nized leader In the Democratic
party. He was one of the men In
fluential In the construction of
the Daniel Boone hotel here.
He Is survived by two sons, R.
C. Rivers, Jr., and J. C. Rivers,
of Boone: a daughter, Mrs.
Boone; two
conflict with services
own churches.
Rev. Mr. Olive has announced
that sermons on Sundays and
each night during the series will
be based on the Gospel of John,
the purpose of which is express
ed in the twentieth chapter,
verse thirty-one: “that ye may
believe that Jesus Is the Christ,
the Son of God: and that believ
ing ye may have life in his
name.” At the early morning
Services, so timed that business
and professional men and school
■children may attend, the book of
Acts win form the basis of study
and worship.
charge will be held in Wilkesboro
Methodist church tomorrow eve
ning at 7:30 o’clock
Each feature is broadcast over
amplifiers supplied through the
courtesy of the D. & M. Electrlo .
Rev. J. H. Arrabrust will act company. John Carey Is doinE
as presiding elder and
the business session.
conduct
C. C. JACOBS, 28, DIES
FROM HIS INJURIES
Lumberton, Sept. 18.—C. C.
Jacobs, 28, of Bahama, near
Durham, died In a Lumberton
sanatorium today of a
wound received Sunday after
noon when he lost control of hls
automobile ori a curve on high
way 21, a mile from Dublin, and
I nos
la worsnip crashed into a tree.
The music promises to be an ! Hardeman of Linden, riding with
Inspiring part of the special j him. was not hurt.
evangelistic season. Special ““sj^hild Dies After Eating
leal numbers, appropriate for Entire Box of Pills
the occasion, will be rendered
from time to time In the form of
solos, duets, quartets and chorus-
Thomasvllle, Sept. 18.—Fu
neral service was held yesterday
es. It Is planned to use a large: for BilUe Deberry, two-year-old
number of boys and girls to sing
In a Junior choir.
No Kiwanis Meeting
On account of the Great Wilkes
Fair which is now In progress,
there will be no meeting of the
Klwanls Club tomorrow. The
next regular luncheon will he
held Friday of next week.
son of Mr. and Mrs. Alton De
berry, who died Saturday morn
ing In less than an hour after he
had eaten an eritlre box of some
76 or 80 pills. The pills, it was
said, were left within the child’s
reach after having been taken
down from a higher shelf. The
rites were held at Wadesvllle,
Montgomery county.
the announcing.
The free acts, starting at 2 p. ,
m., include the Jackamese, re
volving ladder act, selections bjr,^
the Mt. Airy band under the dl- j ■
rectlon of Prof. Wagoner; Erlc-V.,
Dodge dolni^ the single trapese-
act; Little Aimee and her swing-
scalp ’"S ladder; the El-Ray Sisters,,
sensational roller skaters: tb»>s
Aerial Cowdens, double trapeze
act, and the Funny Makers, buck
ing Ford performers.
The public -wedding was a fea--
ture of. last nighNs program.
Thousands are xapected to
crowd the riiidway dh^g the
remainder of the week the
special attractions yet to ci
The chief attraction on
schedule will he the 250-1
automobile race starting Satur
day afternoon ak 2 o’clock. Ten
well known professional dirt
track drivers are entered In the
race. The race will require the
attention of fair-goers through
out most of the afternoon. ''
North Wilkesboro Gridders Will
Open Season With Elkin Tomorrow
B.
the son of Mr. and Mrs. J.
Henderson, of Wilkesboro.
The young couple received
twenty-five dollars In gold as a
gift from the Great Wllkee Fair
Association and many other gilts
from - merchants and bnslness
firms of North Wilkesboro.
sisters, Mrs. J. W. Farthing, and
Miss Nanny Rivers, both of
Boone.
Funeral services were conduct
ed Tuesday morning at 11
o’clock at Boone. Friends from
widely separated communities at
tended.
The Mountain Lions of North
Wilkesboro high school will
open the 1988 gridiron season
with Elkin at the fairgrounds
here tomorrow afternoon.
Oo^ H. V. Ovorcash has
been working hard with the
0iaterial he has on hand and
pm^Acts ate no* too bri^t
for the season jost ahead. The
high school coach is not at-
tampthiif to assume a pcaalmla-
tie attUnde for puHlcIty pur
poses. With so few lettw mea
on the squad and the new ma
terial none too promising, the
outlook Is not as good as In
former years.
The Elkin eleven Is said to
have el^it letter men and some
ezcellmit new materiaL
The local team Is expected to
pat iw a real scrap against tbd
Sorry eleven.
The game trill be pl*ybd at
8:80 o'clock and thiMe wfll he
no admisafam diarge except the
regolar admlsskm to the fahv
groonds.
Two More States'
Vote Fmr Repeid
New Mexico and Idalio Are
30th and Slat States To
Join Parade
' New Mexico and Idaho Joined
the big parade Tuesday and vot
ed to repeal the Eighteenth
Amendment. The wet delegatee
were elected by big majMitlee.
New Mexico and. Idaho beeams
the SOth and Slat states to Toipa'
protest against' Ih* ^ prohlblttoa
amendment. No. -state has yet
voted to retalri ;ihsl amendment., .
FITS more sUtes are noeessasy-
to insure rop^ of the amend
ment. There Ks 17 »tataa
Tote.