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NORTH WILKBSBOHO, N. C., THURSDAY, OCT. 26, 1933
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iMe Morphy Will'
^teak In County;'
Lovill Is Coming
Repeal Campaign
Repeal Forces To Hold Ral
ly Next Tuesday Night
At The Courthouse
Tammany In Struggle To Regain Power r 1: Wilkes & Western
Railway Company
Charter On File
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j| ^ Manfl Pftsoii For Unde Sam*s Gangyera
ONLY ONE ‘‘WET” RALLY
BoMie Attomey To Fire Fin-
tal Gun In Dry Campaign
On November 5th
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Interest in the election on No
vember 7 in which the voters of
(Wlftes will elect a delegate to the
constitutional convention to vote
on the question of repealing the
Eighteenth Amendment is picking
up and indications are ^hat both
the repeal and anti-repeal leaders
y/
Has An Authorized Capital
Stock Of $500,000 With
$224,000 Subscribed
PROSPECTS ARE BRIGHT)
Definite Information Regard-1
ing Project Is Withheld
At F^sait Time
The charter of the Wilkes and
Westen Railway company, with
I offices in this city, was filed in
j the office of Secretary of State
I Stacy W. Wade at Raleigh yester-
I day.
1 The company, which recently
I purchased the old Watauga and
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Portion Of~SCHer8 Oum^
Jefferstm Road To Get,.
Some Attenttoa-^
OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCfil
,, _ • .• i.,- Yadkin River Railway company’s
Once again in the cycle of years New Yorks Tammany is f>K““ngl authorized capital
will see the busiest days of the i to retain its political powers. Mayor John P. O’Brien, Tammany can-jg^p^jj {5000,000 with {224,-j
campaign between now and elec- didate, l it, asks reelection. Joseph V- McKee, center, “Recovery Party” subscribed by C. E. Jenkins, j
tion day. I candidate, said to have Washington support, is running as Indepen- I j. r. hIx, R. W. Gwyn, J. H. |
The big guns of the campai.gn ; Democrat, and Fiorello H- La Guardia, right, heads the Fusion whicker, J. B. Williams, John R. i
of those favoring repeal will be i Jones, J. G. Hackett, S. V. Tom-1
heard next Tuesday evening, Oc- ' i llnson and H. C. Landon.
tober 31, at the courthouse in
Wllkesboro when the county-
Hoyle Sink To Hear School
Tax Matter Tomorrow Night
Definite Date For Hearing Is Set By Superior Court Jurist
After Attorneys Agiee; Number Of L4)cal People Ex
pected To Go To Charlotte
wide rally of the repeal forces
will be held.
Pete Murphy. of Salisbury,
state manager for repeal, and a
prominent Republican speaker,
whose name could not be learned
this morning, will be the speak-
ors. The dynamic Salisbury at
torney and legislator is expected
'to draw an immense concourse of, , . -r r> .
DeoDl to hear him Tomorrow evening has been' .ludge Tam C. Bowie, of West
The rally will begin at s i uefinitely set for the long-deiaycd , Jefferson, represents tlie plain-
o’clock Tuesday evening and,i>earing ou the order restraining Uiffs who seek a permanent re-
leadters extend an Invitation to the city from collecting the school straining order. The pla.ntit s a -1
the public to hear the two speak- tax supplement voted by citizens , lege that the election was not call-
; of North Wilkesboro in the Au- ed by the proper authorities and
era. .
The closing gun of the dry cam-^ election,
paign'will be fired Sunday, No-|
^ vember 5. when ^
Alcatraz Island, located in San Francisco Bay, ia the spot where
jnuu w. V,. Uncle Sam proposes to house desperate gangsters, kidnappers and
j Prospects are bright for early I racketeers, thus eliminating outside aid in prison breaks and riote.
operation of the railroad, accord- 1 The prison now located there, (above), is being taken over from the
ing to information obtained this
week, but no definite information
as to w^hen steps in that direction
will be taken is known at this
time.
Route No. 268 Toward
la Surry, Also Induded
In The List . >
Two Wilkes project were
included in a batch , of
road projects senfctoi^^B&ifljlr’
ington Tuesday
highway commission for ap
proval of the federal; btt-
reau of roads.
In reply to a telegram
yesterday afternoon, John
D. Waldrop, chief highway
engineer, wired The Journ
al-Patriot that the jobs are
listed as being for work on
Highway No. 268 whieh-
connects North Wilkesboro
and Elkin and for work on
Highway No. 16 between
Millers Creek and Jeffer
son. The telegram stated
that “both jobs cover grad-
War Department ... and foremost among the first ^00 ^ 600 “bad ^gravel
“Machinegun George Kelly, left.— * .
men” to be confined there are
Albert Bates and Harvey Bailey, right, leaders in the Urscell kidnap
ing, for which all received life sentences.
Federal Court To \ Saturday Is Only Day To
Convene Nov. 20i Jfggisfgj. for Repeal Vote
that there were certain irregular-
judge Hoyle Sink will hear the ities which render the election
W R ^Loviu ^ arguments of the attorneys at j null and void.
R^n'p attornev will de- Charlotte between seven and eight The board of city commission-
' ’ ■ • ■ ! o’clock. A number of local peo'ole i ers, defendants In the action, are
jare expected to go there for the 1 represented by Solicitor John R.
hearing. 1 Jones.
liver an address at a county-wide
rally in Wilkesboro.
Announcement that the big ral-
ly is planned was made yesterday | *w
by dry leaders who expressed' t(|uCatOrS HCfe
pleasure at being able to secure;
Mr. Lovill for this meeting.
• The rally will be held in the
evening at 7:30 o’clock either at I
Jury List Is Announced By
I)^uty Clerk L. Bumgar
ner, Of Wilkesboro
Federal court for the trial of
criminal eases will conve.ne on
November 20.
Registrars WiU Be At Polling Places Only On This One Day
To Register New Voters; Those Already Re^tered
Need Not Register Again for Repeal Election
Saturday, October 28, Is the
Judge Johnson J- |only day on which voters may
To Open Funeral
For Big Meetii^[ Home In Watauga
the courthouse or in the Wilkes-; l Hathcock, Director Of | Reins-Sturdivant
boro school auditorium. Accounts, Presides; Six ; Undertaking Establishment
Both sides are expected to make Counties Represented ' At Boone Soon
every effort possible to get their
sympathizers registered Saturday,' Coimf’' superintendents and Reins-Sturdivant, popular lo- Lane,
Hayes, of the middle federal dis
trict, will preside.
The list of jurors announced
yesterday by Deputy Clerk Lin-
ville Bumgarner, of Wilkesboro,
follows:
Allegany County
T. S. Moxley, Laurel Springs;
To Locate'Glade Valley;
I Neal Hendrix, Sparta; Major
iJoirics, Whitehead; Carl Cook,
Stratford; Quincy Blevins, Cher-
W. Glenn Fender, En-
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e only day which registrars will ^he board of education' cal undertaking firm, will open!
at the polling places. counties were present at, a funera'i nome at .Boone next j
Up to the present time, the re- odnrat/^ro nt week, it was learned yesterday,
peal forces have held no speakings; a group meeting of educators at
and no active campaign has bei'n | Hotel Wilkes yesterday morning.
Arrangements for the opening
have been completed and the new
wagred. However, the drys have| j. l. Hathcock, of Raleigh, di->fyf,prai home in the
Watauga
been busy, sending speakers school accounts, state! city will open with a complete
almost every nook and comer of education, presided, line of up-to-date caskets and the
the county. eauipment w'iil De modern in
The response of the citizenship j and led a general. detail
to their campaign has been most ? discussion of the accounting sys- H.'Somers, of this city,
enthusiastic, according to leaders. 1 tern. | has been connected with the
On the other hand, those favoring rp^e counties represented were ^ local firm for the past three or
Watauga, Wilkes, Alexander, 1 four years, will be In charge of
Burke, Yadkin and Avary. The,tl>e Reins-Sturdivant Funeral
Morganton, North .Wilkesboro and; Boone. Mr. Somers,
Glen Alpine city administrative! experience
units were also represented. |
repeal believe that the great wa/e
™Rpf sentiment which has resulted in
a repeal victory in every state
{ich has voted will continue and
Wilkes and North Carolina
m the wet column when the votes
are tabulated.
FTax Discount Is
Being Given
fOM Per Cent To Be Deducted
If Paid Prior To First Day
Of Coming Mmith
Wilkesboro Team
Goes To Harmony
'Troutman-OoMcfaed Gridders To
Meet Harmony Eleven Tomor
row Afternoon There
as an
assistant here, is an efficient
funeral director and Is well pre
pared to take charge of the bus
iness there.
The funeral home will be lo
cated near the Boone Baptist
church.
i Wilkesboro high school's foot- I
ball team will visit Harmony 1
high school in the edge of Ire-
. dell county tomorrow afternoon
diaeount of one per cent iSjjgj. fourth game of the sea-'
fewed on all city taxes which ^
paid prior to the first of No- j wilkesboro boys have Ira-
aher. City Clerk W. P- Kelly. proygj considerably in recent
yesterday. _ I days and are believed to have
Payment of 1933 taxes is now | than an even chance
(heisg »cc*pt®d, the books having ggai^gt Harmony. The margin of
open for some time. '
SINGING ASSOCIATION
WILL MEET ON SUNDAY
i^een
Many tstxpayers are saving one
^per eent by paying their 1933 ob-;
ions tiiis month.
victory for Wilkesboro should be
at least one touchdown.
The regular fifth Sunday meet
ing of the Southside Singing As
sociation, which m^ts Sunday at
Wzdoat-Grove church at Pores
Kiieb for an all-day program, is
numhhr 0
etc. An unusually large crowd is
expected. A feature of the after
noon session will be an address by
Rev. J. H. Armbrust, of this city,
at 2:30 o’clock.
expected to be attended by a large
)f choirs, quartets, duets,!ing River; O. C. Holcomb, North
nice; Harrison Lyon, Sparta.
Ashe County
B. W. Graybeal, Lansing; John
W. Eller, Grumpier; CUnt Gilley,
Clifton; Charley Gentry, West
Jefferson; T. S. Baker, Creston;
Eugene Lewis, Ashland; Geo. C.
Bower, Wagoner; J. W. Neal, Jef-,
ferson; Jake Graham, Todd; O.
S. Wilcox, Oblds; W. R. Brown,
Parker; C. H. Sheets, Glendale
Springs; Lester Wyatt. Eldreth;
R. D. SheeU, White Top; W. P.
Colvard, Grassy Creek; Joe El
liott, Comet.
Watauga Ckmnty
Lee Mast, Sherwood; CoUls
Green, Blowing Rock; W. Raleigh
Johnson, Vilas; V. C. Cox, Trip
lett; E. B. Pox, Banner Elk;
Walter Brown, Laxton; D. C. Cof
fey, Boone; D. L. Green, Zion-
ville; M. W. Mast, Valle Crucis;
Elbert Vannoy, Hodges Gap; W.
O. Robertson, Boone; Clyde Per
ry, Sugar Grove.
Wilkes County
W. C. Scroggs, Moravian Falls;
Jeter P; Crysel, Wllkesboro; A.
E. Triplett, Purlear; A. C. Den
nis, Wilkesboro; V. C. Elledge,
Purlear; Edgar M. Eller, Pores
Knob; J. E. Edmlnsten, Ready
Branch; G. M. Alexander, Roar-
register for the repeal election
which will be held November 7.
Only those who have changed
voting precincts and new voters,
not previously registered, are re
quired to register, the old regis
tration being accepted for the
forthcoming election.
Registrars have been instructed
to be at the polling places all
day and all those who wish to
register should make it a point to
do so Saturday.
There will be no absentee vot
ing allowed on November 7 and
indications point to a smaller
vote than is usual in a general
election. However, Interest con
tinues to pick up in the so-called
wet and dry campaign and Wilkes
may be one of the banner coun
ties In the percentage of votes
cast.
The registration books and
transfer blanks have been deliv-
erad to the registrars. It was
learned from B. B. Barkley, sec
retary of the Wilkes county
hoard of elections this morning.
Those who have changed voting
precincts within the past four
months must get a certificate of
transfer and have their names
placed on the books of the pre
cinct in which they are now re
siding.
Voters of North Wilkesboro
township will register at the
mayor’s office Saturday. The
registration books will be open
from 9 a. m. to sun-down.
surfacing.’
The news that work is to be
started on these two. important
road projects will te received
with much satisfaction by the
people of North Wilkesboro and
along the two routes.
Mr. Waldrop announced Tues
day that 47 proposed projects,
estimated to cost {2,129,940, had
been sent to Washington tor ap
proval with a view to Including
a portion of them in the Novem
ber 8 letting.
Municipal jobs for Sparta, Le
noir and Yadklnville were also
announced as having been ap
proved by the state highway com-
misBlon.
The starting of activity on the
North Wllkesboro-Blkin project
and the Millers Creek-Glendal®
Springs project, which now ap
pears a thing of the immediate
future. Is a culmination of stren
uous efforts on the part of civic
clubs, county authorities and In-*
dividuals of Ashe, Wilkes and -
Surry.
Local Eleven To
Play Mount Airy
Gridiron Battle b To Take
Place At Fairgrounds In
City at 3:45 o’Oock
iY WILL DELIVER
HBITION ADDRESS
■ -«|«ev. L. B. Murray will deliver
address In favor of prohlbl-
»n at Purlear Baptist church.
larsday, November 2, at .j7 p.
The pablle la invited to hear
Arella Adnms, seereUry
Mn. W. R. Absher. president
tkdJIorth CaroUna Department
! American iMgioa Anxill-
the 9aet .«eelt-«n4 at
Wilkes County Com To Be Placed
On Exhibit At International Show
Wilkes County White, a varie
ty of com originated by the late
D. V.'Nichols and developed by
his sons in the Purlear communi
ty, will be placed on exhibit at
the International drein* and Hay
show in Chicago in December, it
was learned this wsek.
Wilkes exhibitors recently won
with this variety.
Among those who will make
entiiee in the International show
are W. M. Hayse, R. Don Nichols,
Ted R. Nichols, W. H. Nichols,
dthers are also expected to enter
com at th« show.
" In recent years, Wilkes county
aom has won -Ugh honors at the
Qilii^onf o( tea Int piaees. for fjhltagp ehow and, is puNHei 4A
com exUbits at the State Fair wiilke a good aIiowing*thls time.
Wilkesboro; Gaither A. Bumgar
ner, Wllkesboro: C. S. Bumgar
ner, North Wllkesboro; J. A.
Souther, Spurgeon; J, A. Poplin,
Ronda; H. J. Ogllvie, Oakwoods.
Midway the season’s schedule.
North Wllkesboro’s Mountain
Lions are hoping for better suc
cess in their remaining games
and will endeavor to check the
Mt. Airy high school eleven in a
game at the fairgrounds tomor
row afternoon at 3:30.
Tickets are now oelng sold by
the students and indications are
that the largest crowd of the
season will be on hand to cheer
the local boys on.
With early season examina
tions behind them, members of
the football squad have less to
worry about the remainder of the
i schedule and a strong team will
be placed on the field tomorrow.
Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Bumgarnor
and sons. Gene, Jack and John, of
Winston-Salem, visited Mr. Bum-
garnf-r’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. L.
Bumgarner, of WilSmboro, the
past week-end.
Kiwanis Directors To
Meet At Hotel Wilkes
George Kennedy will he host
to directors of the Kiwsnts Clnh
St the monthly meeting to be
held St Hotel Vnikes this ^ are-^
singii(( 7 o’clock. All dtraotors
sre eipectSd to be on hsnd tor
the meeting.
Masonic Lecturer
Here Next Week
Gulf Dealers In
Splendid Bai^_
About 135 Dealers And Their
Guests Present; Is Hdd^
At Hotel Wilkes
Jeff Nelson To Lecture At
Local Lodge Daily Thru-
Out Entire Week
Jeff Nelson, of Statesville, Ma
sonic lecturer, who will be here
'mext week, beginning Monday, to
deliver lectures at sessions of
North Wllkesboro Lodge No. 407,
it was announced yesterday.
Two sessions will be held dally
throughout the entire week and a
(all attendance of local lodge
members is desired.
Officials of the local lodge said
they wished to extend through
the press an invltatlop to mem-
'bers of all Masonic lodges in the
county to bear the lectures.
Lions Gub WJl Hold
Meeting This Eveniiig
H. V. Wagoner and S. B. Rich
ardson will have charge of the
However, the ability of tho Mt. program at the seipi-numthly
AIit eleven is not discounted and I meeting of the Lions pl'db this
the Mountain Lions are In for a evening. ’The meeting be^ held
tough battle. | at Hotel Wilkes at 7 ©’dock.
Printers of This District WiS-
Meet At Hotel Wilkes Tomorrow
Printers of this district, 'which
is known as the Winston-Salein
district, 'will hold a meeting at
Hotel Wilkes tomorrow evmiiBg at
7 o’dock.
In addition to inqiortaat mat-
teir to eenc vp for ecosldezntfoa.,attendance Is expected for
A. G. Gordon, president sf this^
state aasodatioQ of printers. Is ex-
psetod to be j’iifwt and
Approximately 135 - dealers 4a
Good Gulf products frois five
counties in this territory were
guests of Distributors C. D. Cot->
fey, Jr., of this city, R. G. Vsn-
noy, of West Jefferson, and R.'!^
L. Church, of Elkin, at a delight-\
ful banquet at Hotel Wilkes '
Tuesday evening.
Distributor Coffey was toast-j
master and welcomed the large
number of dealers and their
guests.
The five counties represented
at the banquet meeting ..wereW-!
Wilkes, Surry, Ashe, Alleghany
and Watauga.
The principal speaker
A. Bourne, of Atlanta^
special representative of this
Refining company who told of
the efforts that are being made
by his company to help service
station operators to obtain a
large share of the gasoline and
oil trade. He stated that the com
pany had gone to conaiderabto-
expense to gather together the
material used in the picture,-
which was to be shown and that:
the ideas incorporated Jn it had
been tested and were' being UKd
to advantage by Many Good Gait
dealers throughout the couhtry. ,
The talking picture^ resealtog
the transformation of
rupt serriee station into a paying ^
enterprise, was the ^outstoadl^^ _
feature of the program. In' ad-^W
diUon to showing the modem
of merchandising, tbs
tnre gave the dealers aosnev^n-
the
^lonailty of Good G
A deliglitfal dlnasr
an address. If able to attend. Mr.'
Gordon will, give a synopeis of the
printers code now in its form
and awaiting the sigdatare of
Presideiit RMSevsIt
The code i^pliaa to boQi new*-, ..
papers and job shqpa and a largel**>** Infonnatlon rsga»«^
meeting iMn. — ^
D, j. Carter will be boat p*lntor|prt"
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