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^No. 34 Is Visited Br>,
list Quirch Officials
^ Dmring Meeting •* '
■'TO* boys of Scout Troop No.
pm lad an Indoor program on
■.#aaay: evening. It was In the
of a self>cooked supper.
Mwif grouped themselves and
gliliVared their supper consisting
•f^eocoa, hunters stew and
’•Mllf. ’If?.’ Bouknight and Clyde
AWanon supervised the program.
.Interesting feature ■ ^as a
iseveral of the church of-
' during the cooking oper-
' t^teongrtOAd hoys invited the men
dine with them, but ■ having
their supper the invitation
■•'•a® decUned until some other
cMme. The stewards were delight-
•d with the fine work being doAo'
.h that department of church
work. ' '
This Week h
Wasluiigtop ‘
ifTtoions of the Recovery Act; And
H is clear that bulaesa is not
going to be tnmed over la a
bloek to the Federatioa' of Labor,
t'
M'ashlngton.,—As the farm
wife says at preserrlng time, the
President’^ program is beginning
to'‘‘JoH." A lot of the froth. In
the shape of wild doctrines and
loose talk, has been skimssM off
and what was fluid and formless
two or three weeks ago Is begln-
j ning to assume shape and some-
i thing resembling solidity.’
What the mass ne'Med was
Wwfv ’ wvpni ^ —
are prepared to i|i|get todtafV
Bund. €hlldi«i’s Oeate, alinrfl
p(daiNi tweeds, chlnehlllac
which is . what more business mctt btoaddoSlWt. RUVfty eport
fesred than any other one thing;
except, perhaps, the fear of Fed
eral snoopers prying around their
shops and telling them how to
rnn their business'. >v,
And then is where' Gerard
Swope came'^ ltt. Mr. Swope is
President of the General Electric
Company. He has been serving as
an unpaid adviser on General
Johnson’s staff at Washington.
Alter sitting in on many code
conferences, Mr. Swope evolved a
program for taking the admlnls-
aad strikiBg far . trims,
styles sad «dors, sixes 4 14,!
Specisl price flAO to
The GoodwiU Store.
•W-',
Repori of the' Condition of.
Bulk rf North WUkesIm.'
at North Wllkesboro;- North C«r-'
oHna, to the Commissioner of,
Banks at the Close of Bus
on the 25th day of October, H31.
RHSOURCBS
Cash, Checks 1 o r'
Clearing ,and Trans
it Items 4
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Buggaboo News
RONDA, Nov. I."?.—Mr. and
■Is. Walter Key and children, of
Esmaz, spent Sunday with Mr.
■ey’s mother, Mrs. W. E. Key.
Mrs. J. K. Tharpe, and daugh
ter, Mls.s Nellie, and Mis.i Fran-
Tharpe spent Saturday in El-
Un. shopping.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Durham,
•f Lomax, visited relatives in
tWs community, Sunday.
Mrs. Hoyle Anthony spent Fri-
dhw In North Wllkesboro, shop-
Uag-
Misses Bessie and Winnie Mc-
bln, of North Wllkesboro, sp^nt
Mnnday with Mr. and Mrs. J. N.
Bhreftette.
Misses Ila and Lena Anthony
Ihitertalned a number of their
friends at their home Saturday
B^bt.
Games were plaved and much
Bn was reported by all present.
Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Stroud and
Awnghter, Miss Flora Kate, spent
Bnsday with Mr. and Mrs. J. M.
Anthony, of Roaring River.
Mfsses Eulala and Lossic Brad-
My spent Friday in Elkin, shop-
Jteg
Mr, Eugene Stroud is spend-
teg some time with his sister,
Mrs. Clarence Burton, of Har-
■»ony.
An excellent pn^iograph oi a scene, wherem tne Kev. j. uorman unsson of tne jVUQway Bapustland one was Gerard Swope,
church, near OchIcckr.ee, Ga., prepared to baptize a number of converts 'n a nearby stream as members of, Ford
Ih- church and their friends took part in the ceremony from the shore- _; ^^g^
Trr« rinr/\rb\/ Ibr'Tr/\l Fk -! in the meantime, a wealthy j Automobile Chamber of
GRUESOME STORY RtlOLU
pectin. Anyone who doesn’t know | jj^tion of the Recovery Act out
what pectin Is had’ better talk toj^j hands of the'Government,
some housewife who has tried to i ^ possible after the Due from Approved
make Jelly without it. And the _industries had gof orga- j Depository Banks t.
1 pectin in this Instance, the pre- ^
jclpltant that started things to
I settling down, came from two
i sources outside the Admlnlstra-
! tion circles. One was Henry Ford
to the i Commerce, which Is the trade as-
^ O— I *-
nlzed, and setting up a board j Due from Banks; Not
i composed of the representatives Approved Depositor-
! of business and industry to do les : ^—'•
the police work and-see to It that Cash Items (Held
everybody behaved. ' Over 24 hours
' The I Ian Develops • i United States Bonds, ' Pf
That has met with the widest j Notes, Etc '20,000.^9-
approval in business circles, and, (North Carolina State '
to the suprlse of a good many, Bonds, Notes, Etc. .. 41, 134.|r
North Carolina Poll- ^
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OF FLOYD COLLINS’DEATH
cave can now see by the light sopjation set up for the automo-
of a lantern swung from a rope. | industries under the Recov-
'The minutes seemed hours, i General Johnson threat-
I but finally the physician emerged | g„g^ ^nd fumed. He expressed
North Carolina citizens recall set out for the cave, knowing, jiig crevice with the news' yj,g j^gj^ ^jjg '‘crack-
thc sensation over tlie country in ' the exact route Collins intended Floyd Collins was dead. “l!,jown’’ on Henry, for what seem-
February,. 1925, when Floyd Col-i to following during the first part found the body of Floyd !gj yg something like treason.
1—, w:.. i!»„ in a u-untncitv I of his exnloration. Collins,” he reported. "I believe (jjg gygn swapped his official Lln-
that he died from double pneu
monia.”
'The suspense was over.
1 vw «7
tins lost his life in a Kentucky I of his exploration,
cave. The story is retold by Ada After penetrating some
Romp Walden In
Journal. Floyd Collins was
led three times.
dlst-
the Atlanta i ance into a narrow crevice which
bur- [ reached almost straight down
ward, the man heard a response | . ..j yyjiiing for Floyd to be
BASKETBALL TOURNEY
TO GET UNDER WAY
(Continued from page one)
■ regular student in school and
who does not pass at least three
xegular courses shall be eligihU*
tor tournament play.
The athletics committee Is now
«Tanging the schedule which
»CI be released for publicaticiri
■wfthfn a few days.
In addition to County Sitperin-
Bndent C. R. Eller, there wa.s flu*
fWlowing representation at tlie
achoolmasters meeting; Rotida,
T: Roaring River. 6: Mountain
Tiew. .■?: Traphill. 3: Millers
•Creek, 4; Mt. Pleasant, 2: Wil-
fcesbnro. G.
The next mertinc of th
vtil be held I’)e-einher 11
said' Floyd
loved the
For more than two weeks the ! to his calls. Collins had attempt-1 burled where he
37-year-old mountaineer lay pin-1 ed to kick aside a huge rock | cguins’ father,
ioned in the cave and his np.me | which partly Impeded his prog- • caves and the rocks of this sec-
flashed In the headlines, and the {ress, and the stone had become j tion.” And in deference to his
■ - J r,,f «ni„ Mncirinv the y^jgijes. a crude altar of rocks
was fashioned, and the next day,
fiom every comer of Kentucky
people came to attend what was
probably the most unusual iu-
whole country waited, hoping i dislodged, not only blocking the
but also falling on his
and praying that he would be I passage,
released. But It was not to be—! leg.
Floyd Collins died. Yet he still | The host, by the aid of his
lives, in many ways, as I discov-; lantern, could see Collins’ face,
ered when I visited the section ’ Declaring that he would go at
in which his cave is located. | once for aid, he hurried away.
The region in which Collins j with words of the imprisoned
was born and reared i.s honey-' man in his ears.
combed with caves. Mammoth! Help was not long in coming, j had died.
Cave, one of the nation’s won- i but the problem of rescuing. California there was a
ders,'being but six miles to the j Floyd Collins appeared to be un-1 brother who disapproved of this
north. So it was natural that! solvable. Members of the rescue | burial. He had been one of the
Collins, nature lover that he was, ! party who ventured into the ere- j fortunate prospectors who had
should be interested in cave.s. To ' vice found that he was approxi-j g. bonanza and money was
coin car for a Cadillac, because
Ford owns the Lincoln company.
He tried to get a Ford dealer’s
bid for trucks rejected' by the
Army, even though It was the
lowest bid. It looked like hard
sledding for Henry, to hear the
General tell it.
The Showdown
Then, all of a sudden, it turn
ed out that Henry Ford had been
rig'ht and General Johnson
wrong, all the time. Henry hasn’t
- wrong, ail luc iiiuD. .
neral ever held. The well was gignea the Blue Eagle agreement,
filled in, and it was announced but the high legal officials of the
A t- _ X. 'vnil _ — J ^ 111 M 3 ^ o 1A Aft .A -.---U
ea*. me infill lOfiCll
that Floyd Collins would sleep Administration are agreed
1-1.- I ftiA novA nrllAf*A - a. ^
i his last sleep in the cave where
that
he doesn't have to If he doesn’t
want to, nor does anyone else
General Johnson has approved
the Idea. The administrator of
the NRA Is, after all, a business
man and not a politician or a
bureaucrat. A good many politici
ans don’t like the notion of let
ting all the good jobs involved in
code administration and super
vision get away from them, but
the signs point that way now.
Business and industry are chirk
ing up. The really big business
men of the nation see a lot of
good—have seen it from the be
ginning in the Idea of organiz
ing business. It is what many of
them have been trying to do for
a long time, but Government
wouldn’t let them. Now Govern
ment is not only letting them but
doing it for them, and their fear
that Government was going to
take them over is vanishing.
Big men In the oil industry say j
that the new oil code is the best j
thing that has ever happened to!
the industry. Everybody except a I
House and
46,000.03
36,862.60k.
... 675.266.81,‘>*
so.ooo.oor'^
t i c a 1 Subdivisions
Bonds and Notes —
Other Stocks and
Bonds -
Loans and Discounts
—Other
Banking
Site
Fkimiture,
and Equipment 5,000.00,
Other Real Estate 6,688.8l»
Overdrafts 28.0T
Total Resources $949,928.^8
ILIABILmElS AND CAPITAL A
Deiposlts—
Demand
—Due Banks . $
Demand Deposits—
Due Public Officials
Demand Deposits—
I Due Others
i Cashiers Ohecks, Cer
tified Checks and
Dividend Checks
A c c r u ed Expenses,
Taxes and Interest
(Reserve)
9,787.18
35,787.74
284,128.58
1,821.41 .
prowl through the mountains in
search of crevices or entrances
that might lead to the Mammoth
was one of his hobbies, and on
one of these expeditions, a few
years before his death, he discov
ered the entrance to the now-fa-
wages as high as the minimum j
set forth in the code, work as!
mately 200 feet beneath the j object. He desired that his
removed
■ and Interred in the little family ,
® I burial ground-, no matter what gbort hours as the code calls for, i
had been considered impenetr-, ^be cost. Correspondence elicited -■ ■ = -
able beyond a few yards. But day .be information that reinterment
and night, as crowds assembled | p„gt $2,800, for the rock
1 ixv
j earth, in a narrow opening, i brother’s remains be
j which was formed entirely of
rock, and which up to that time
waut lu. iiui ‘‘"J—“ ‘tew recalcitrants agrees that | /Rggerve) 600.00
have to. It is a purely voluntary , ^bat the coal industry has need-irp, rerUftcnVea of
agreement. Neither does he have ' ^ f^j. yggra is organization. That 1 r>„_ otb-
to Join the Trade Association of gj| gj. jbe other “re- _ j. 24 870.28
his ind'ustry. That, again, is “-source” Industries, such as Inni- „ . „ nAmifiVta
matter of choice. All Henry has ^ ber, fisheries, mining of allj 'nue Others 351 816.95'
to do. It turns out, is to 0“^! kinds.
Named Executrix
^iss Toby Turner, of this city
I Bills Payable 83,248.77
Rediscounts 3,800.00
erect me enirauce lu luc —v... ■ ^uuiu  ^4r,ovv, *'—
mous Crystal Cave. Today, miles j and hundreds of men volunteered ^ gg„j would have to he tak
.. - fro,,, the deep shaft before
j Total Liabilities $795,804.82
and let his employees bargain ^ ^jgg xoby Turner, of this city, j ^ | 50,000.00
with him collectively. ! was named executrix of the estate | surplus — Unappro-
It has been acceded from the i .thiiiuuh uininnii^
down the highway, the visitor | their services, desperate efforts,^,, o......
sees signs pointing the way to ■ were made to reach the doomfyi j jbe body could be reached,
this cavern which bears the leg- j man.
end. “Floyd Collins Crystal j The time came when his voice
•• j could not be heard, but a tele-
The guide that directs visitors phone was pushed into the Cre
te Sand Cave, where Collins per-1 vice beside him and it was known
ished, lives in a cottage a few (that he still lived because his
Two months later the task of
removing the body from the nar
row crevice was completed. The
huge rock that had caused the
tragedy and the lantern that
Floyd Collins had used to light
his w^ay, were also taken from
hundred yards from the cavern’s | breathing could be heard. Then wa>, WCIC aiiy\l VOAXiim ..xwxx.
entrance. It was from his homo.! another fall of rock precluded all ,fbe cave. Another ceremony was
....ii; —* tsai orvifi I ideal of rescue by the tave . held when Floyd Collins was laid
route! to rest In the family burial plot.
that I gy(. bis sleep there was not
'lull
he had already penetrated for
quite a distance, and he expected
to prove that it led to the great
I rdauimotii Ca'.''-. The fact tliat
I five inche.s of snow coveresl the
{ground ti'.at morning did not eiit-
Maple Grove News j g,. into the .scheme of his explor-
.Maplc Crove Sunday schoo! i.jalions, because the temperature
! (U^f'P down in the c'urth is tno
B-ogressiug rapidly. summer.
The young people of tli.’ Ma-j would travel far to find a
j4e Orove caureh met ami organ-| more beautiful spot than the
P, r. Suniiay evi--1 puide's iiomesite, ,\ winding patli
Blevins. I loads down the sleep liill. among
follows I proat honlders and huge trees
hickory. heeeli, chestnut, and
that Collins went forth that cold
morning in February, 1925, to
continue his explorations in Sand I It was on the sixili day
Cave. Ttiere was one crevice that i I'nele Sam took charge, sending
start that Henry was okay on
hours and wages, but the Feder
ation of Labor thought they had
him on the collective bargaining
proposition. Hadn’t there been
strikes at his Edgewater plant
and elsewhere? Weren’t a lot of
Ford men out? Where did collec
tive bargaining come In?
The Labor Administration in-
i vestigated and gave Henry a
clean bill of health. There never
of her father, the late Governor i priated —
W. D. Turner, of Statesville, i Undivided Profits —-
when the will was filed with the 1 * ,
Reserve for Depreci-
Iredell clerk of Superior court I
last week.
The will disposes of an estate
of $30,000 in real estate and $6,-
600 personal property.
State Baptists Meet
— — I The State Baptist convention is
. had been any objection raised to | jg session at Greensboro this
Ford employees acting as a unit [■week, having convened Tuesday,
i in a demand for different work-1 -phe convention ' ' ’
weeks later, his body | conditions. They had de-!
scene, witli in.stnictions to | was disinterred and placed on ex
a detachment of soldiers to the
continue.
Several
is being at
tended by a number of local Bap-
sisi in every possilde way in the
re.seiie work. With them came
Red Cross workers.
The, .soldiers pitched their
tents on the small plain at tlie
top of the hill, and posted an
armesl guard at the cave to keep
hack the hundreds of curiosity
hihition
in Kloysl Collins' Crystal Cave,
about two miles from the scene
of his death. Tho.se who visit the
in a glass-topped coffin ; bad
manded and Ford had refused. • tjgts, including E, M, Blackburn
made an offer and they w'ho is a member of the state
had refused it. .And Senator Wag-i board.
ner, spokesman for Labor, had to ( Pastors and laymen from var-
of his death. Tho.se who visit the gjjgjit that there was nothing in been in attendance upon the con
cave today may see the partly (^be law to compel any employer i joug parts of the county hav
mummified figure. |)o aE^ree to the collective do- vention.
L.
ixeif a B. Y
ding witli Rev.
ftader. Officers are as
President. Ezra Dancy; secretary-
Srea.surer. IVarl Bureltelte: vice
SifcK-ient- l-oiiiiie Brown; linv;;i
Captains. Opa! Pemiry and Doris
Tale. There are twenty-eiglit on
Toll.
Miss Opal Peiidry was a tiusi-
aess visitor at Nortti Wilkesiioro |
Saturday. ;
Card of Thanks j
We wish to express our sincere
xgipreriation to all our friends j
and neighbors for their many
»rt.s of kindness and expre.s.sions
rf sympathy at the time of the
4e»th of our wife and mother.
JIM BYRD AND CHILDREN.
Coots at a saving! One laat
Jhdiew’ and Misses’ (V>ats, dress
mad sport iiiorlels, fashionerl of
Me new crepe weaves, all wool
jelolrcs and broailclotli'. giving
Mm fitting lines, with Interest-
8ig sleeve treiutuents and select-
•d rich fnr collars, wanted .sizes
and colors, price $11.50 and
M1A50.—The (RKxlwill Store.
pine, many draped with tendrils
of clinging vines. We saw a chip-j
miink dart lieneath a gigantic
rock, and a liright flash was |
ideiitififsl I'v the guide as a red •
fox.
t.riide steps cut into tile steep
est parts of litis trail mark tlii'
only ehanges that have been
made since Ctillins went on iiis
last trip.
Our guide turned into a ravine,
and although we were searching
carefully, we had seen no signs.
of a cave until our host pointed | struck
to a small opening in the rocks'where
and said. “Right here is where
Floyd went In.’’
About dusk of that day eight
I Brothers Parted During
.seekers who had gathered from War Meet Again in Raleigh
far and wide. By this lime there' Nm-:“r3:-Two
was little hope that Collins still „ , . v
lived hut the resette erf,.rls con- hitch-hiked into Raleigh
tinned unabated. .niglil. one from the noith
Cooler heads now decided that|„„g the south. Two
the logical llting lo do was gy„)y wandertn
sink a shaft in other words, winter approaches
through eartli and rock until the ^ „
crevice was veachet!. Derricks
were brougltt in. and work con
ation Fixed Proper
ties
Reserve for Losses
on Bonds _
Reserve for losses on
Notes
Total Capital
Total Liabilities
Capital ....
i2,ooi.d0
7,896.44
699.76
75«i.oei
33,940.85
48,837.96
$154,123.51
. _ have
to agree to the collective do-
I mands of his workers, any more
i than the workers could be com-, ^
pelled to accept any proposal One lot ladies* and misses’,
men; they didn’t like, from the cm-( Winter Coats, dress up models of ,
last ' plover. I niHiI ereiies and bro.idrloth.s,
Igihor .41.SO Iioanis
featuring the newest style treat-
That, in effect, was a swat iniinnntSi with rich high .standing j
the eye for the Federation of | fur collars and clever slceve.s in |
restle.cs!'’’! Labor leaders who have been pro- wanted sizes and colors, also !
tinned day and night. The eight-
foot hole that was excavatel had
to be braced with limbers, and a
crude ladder was extended down
ward with each yard of progress.
The hours passed Into days,
iiiit finally there came the ;ri-
iioiincement that the crevice had
lieen r^ched! The workers iiad
* just eight feet froiti
Collins lay after sinking
Separately they sought s'.elter
(from a chilly night in a Salvation
•army hall.
Preparing to take a bath, they
j met in the bathroom. An incred
claiming from the rooftops that {snappy sport coats, all-wool i>o- her.
the Recovery Act is their meat.
They were going right out and
organize everybody into unions.
For that matter, nothing is stop
ping them except the fact that
j laires, tweeds, and smart cheek-
I ed ones, a real economy .saving.
Buy now, price
Goodwill Store.
$8.75. — The
and
..$949,928,88 ^
State of North Carolina, !oun-
ty of Wilkes.
R. W. Gwyn. Cashier. E. M.
Blackburn, Director, and R. G.
Finley, Director of the Bank of
North Wllkesboro, each personal
ly appeared before me this day,
and, being duly sworn, each tot
himself, says that the foregoing
report is true to the best of his
knoiwledge and belief.
R, W. GWYN.
Cashier,
E. M. BLACKBURN,
R. G. FINLEY.
Directors.
Sworn to and subscribed befors
me this the 8th day of Novem-
1933.
A. W. HORTON,
Notary Public.
My Commission Expires April
l20, 1935.
nloiis look came on their faces, jin the manufacturing Industries
Then Harry Zeiger stepped for-1 most of the big companies have
ward to grasp the hand of his beaten them to it and have en-
brother Louis, whom he had be-lcouraged company unions, which
li.''ved killed in action in the j are functioning without the aid j
world war ; of the Federation.
Tatto inscriptions on the arms j The Ford episode and Its out
er luith aided in establishing, come have gone a long way to
' dispel some of the gennine fears
. I iuentifications. — , . —
the shaft to a depth of lS.-> loet. i notified relatives injof Industrial and business lead-
Cliicago woman, whose sympa- ^^^. jj^gj j^otiis, whom they | ers. It is clear now that nobody
thies and Interest had been | believed dead for 17 years,) has to sign any of his rights
- - — . • , s ■ ■ !
years ago when Collins was trap- aroused, sent a promtnen p >si . alive and well. Today they g^yg,. or disclose trade secrets to
ped in !5and Cave, his host began, cian to the scene at her own ex-^ for _business rivals, so long as he
to wonder why his guest did not j pense. He was the Hrst to de-, oKUhoma City, which Louis fundamental pro-
return. Lighting a lantern, he scend the ladder, and enter the home—hitch-hiking. '
Why Gel Up Nights?
the Bladder Witli .Juniper
'■ Oil, Bnchu, Etc.
Drive out the impurities and
axtess' acids that cause irritation.
Banking and frequent desire. Jun-
te«r oil Is pleasant to take in the
fcnn of BUKETS, the bladder
BuHUtive. also containing Buohu
IMWes, etc. Works on the bladder
aUnjlar to castor oil on the
Bpweis. Get a 25c box from any
Anig alore. After four days it mot
aeBeved of "getting up alghts”
go- apd get your money. It
jpApae bothered with backache
•vJHg pains caused from'Madder
dtenriTiri ynu are bound ta feel
IMteF after this cleansing and
yo«, got your regular sleep.
CREAM
Do Your Cows Furnish You a Weekly Cash Income?
We are, at prcsznt, paying the following prices for sour cream
delivered to our plants:
GRADE I—23c per Lb. Butter-fat
GRADE II—21c per Lb. Butter-fat
Make deliveries or ship to:
HIGH POINT CREAMERY COMPANY
918 WEST BROAD ST-. HIGH POINT, N. C„ or
CLOVER BRAND ICE CREAM COMPANY
400 SUMMIT AVE,, GREENSBORO, N. C.
MR. BROAD OF WALL STpET
By Charles McManus
herfS a WHOLB P»E,
OUST FOR YOU. Go
AND TRY TO BE
Quiet for A'WHILE
did you forget 4^
TO ORinC
the pie plate? I
,OH YE?>
there
well!
IF that's ,
the caae
I ET TH^
plate
;-L..
CAOSE I THOUGHT^
IT WaA the
CRo^T
I MC r~