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.Altered at the post office at North Wllkeaboro,
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A. Parisian neurologist thinks latughter the
finest tonic for the human hody. Just thinking
ifcont the American war debt should keep France
in the old pink—Detroit News.
The government has discovered 2 8 gold hoard-
■ era In California. They should be punished by
J taming their names and addresses over to a high-
power sales organisation.—San Diego Union.
The desert bus lines of the near east remarks
a lecturing globe trotter, are subject to pretty
^ treqnent breakdowns. We give you three guesses
■ as to what the sheiks and other passengers then
walk a mile tor.—Boston Herald.
The Community House
The Wilkesboro Woman’s Club is to be
commended for its efforts to provide a Com
munity House for their town. While there
are other projects, which the CWA might
rightly favor in preference to this, the pro
gressive little club has done what has not
been done in the case of other proposed proj
ects. The club has put itself before the
CWA as offering to supplement funds for
purchase of materials and while we believe
Wilkesboro school needs additions in order
to relieve its crowded condition much worse
than Wilkesboro needs a Club House, there
has been no funds provided for this needed
project.
Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Holman are to be
commended for their donation of lots for the
Community House ard Wilkesboro is fortu
nate in possessing such public-spirited citi
zens.
Needed-
-A Writer
The announcement by the United Daugh
ters of the Confederacy that prizes are be
ing offered for certain essays on historical
facts brings to mind again the fact that
Wilkes county children do not have an ade
quate written work on the history of Wilkes
county.
While some data has l>een compiled and
published, there is no complete written his-
tor3^ of the “State of Wilkes.” Which leads
us to remark that Wilkes county needs a
writer who has the time, is capable and will
find access to the material for compiling an
adequate history of Wilkes.
Our county has a glorious history. From
the day when the .Moi-avians came to Wilkes
and Daniel Boone settled along the Yadkin
until the present time, our “state” has been
nch jh historical developments and some
body who can tell the story of the pictur
esque characters that have trodden the red
clay of our hillsides should reap a rich re
ward. When such a history is written, we
shall be the first to advocate helping the
author by insisting that our school system
add a study of Wilkes history as a compul
sory course and make it mandatory that this
history be purchased just as other school
books are now purchased.
A Foolish Idea
As much as the views of Dr. Nicholas
Murray Butler, distinguished president of
Columbia University, are to be respected, hisj
idea that the nation is going to the dogs un- j
less some device can be discovered by which
-5r-. '
The moat aBweps
be placed in the han% of children are guns
and matchm.' HancUing of these weapons by
the youngsters endangers not only the safety
of the children, but menaces the liv«8 of
adults and property. '
The Associated Press graphically telle
another story of an “unloaded” gun:
WaahiiiKton, Jan. 25.—^Thia is an old, sad and
familiar story:
Willnr Best, 9, found his father’s "unloaded”
pistol-
He w.w playing with his ihrother, Victor, H.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Best, the panmits, were not
around.
Today Victor was dead. He died last night
an hour a’ter he had been shot in the head with
the “unl'/aded” pistol in the hands of Wilbur.
‘T didn’t know it was loaded,” said Wilbur.
“D just happened to go off.”
And if this does not impress the danger
upon the mind sufficiently, read this:
Lexington, Jan. 25—Shot through the head
while playing with a pistol kept in a truck,
which he found while at play, the five-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Gallimore, of Den
ton, has a chance for recovery, aecordi'.ig to
latest information here. The accident occurred
last Sunday afternoon, according to informa
tion secured here. 'A truck belonging to Fred
Gallimore, uncle of the child, who engages in
long distance hauling, w‘as parked near the
boy’s home. The weapon was kept for pro
tection on trips and had been left in its ac
customed place on the ttnck- The bullet pene
trated the lad’s upper lip and lodged In the
back of the head. Ihe missile had not been
extracted at last reports.
And finally, matches in the hands of three-
year-olds write tragedy to this Burke county
family:
Morganton, Jan. 25.—Clothing on three-year-
old Owen Conley Owens, caught fire while he
played near his home yesterday afternoon, and
last night the burns proved fatal. Mrs. Robert
Owens, mother of the child, was painfully burn
ed in a futile attempt to extinguish the blaze
which originated from burning leaves set afire
by the child and his playmate of equal age.
A neighbor, Mrs. Glenn Whisnant, also was
burned about the hands while trying to beat
out the fire.
It is easier to understand why parents and
others sometimes leave matches in reach of
children than it is to solve the mystery of
“unloaded” guns. Guns were not intended
as a substitute for toys. Why can’t parents
understand that? We’d prefer to live in a
house without any gun thamto have one in
reach of the children. It would be far safer i
for the adult members of the family, not
even considering the welfare of the young-.
sters, I
These news dispatches telling the story of I
suffering and tragedy are offered as warn- j
ings to our readers. Let’s prevent them |
from happening in Wilkes this year. i
Gonveraatioir^l^^P^ day, i
Joe McCoy, genial proprietor of |
Hotel Wilkes, remarked that iow [ Stcc
a man ^rada bla money and hia * With Rei
laiinire time goes a long way in
detraniniiig his character.
A moment later he rummaged
m
S. H. Soi
Sturdihvnt 1
February 1st
Richard Kelly, of Bluefleld. W.
Va., formerly of this city, will
around in his pockets and pulled i succeed J. H. Somers as manager
out a clipping from the Greens-'of the Relns-^Sturdlvant Punqfal
boro Daily Record, dated January [Home at Boone on February 1,
li, 1926. It was learned Friday from W, K.
, The clipping was about a ser-J Sturdivant, president of Relns-
mon preached by Pat WiUaims’j Sturdivant.
broth°r, Rev. R. Murphy Williams, ( Mr. Somers, who became man-
of Greensboro. The minister ' ager of the .Boone establishment
statements are so concise ard the j when the business was opened on
sermon so prophetic (it was de- November 1, resigned several
livered in the boom days of the days ago to accept a position with
Coolidge administration) that we the Hafer Chevrolet company, of
asked Joe for the copy. Now we,this city. Mr. Somers will return
pass it along to readers of this here the first of Pehrnary.
column: j Mr, Kelly has had considerable
■ I experience in the undertaking
“Poverty will alwavs rank as business and Mr. Sturdivant
one of the primary causes for feelS fortunate In being able to
crime, and poverty is largely due secure his services for the funer-
to the failure of saving a part of el home at Boone,
pur earnings,” declared Rev. R. ‘
Murphy Williams, preaching Sun- Victim of Wreck
day morning at the Presbyterian j
Church of the Covenant. He used'
as his text the 12th verse of the!
sixth chapter of John and declared
Buried At Center
that Jesus was a gr?at econo
mist.
Rev. Mr. Williams opened his
sermon by telling a story of a
bank “runner,’ who v;sited an-1 Punpral services for Walter
other bank frequently, becoming EHegg,,, 19, of High Point, who
quite chummy with the cashier., k'lled when the motorcycle
Last, Rites For Walter El-i|
ledge Held; Killed At
ThomasviUe
cashier.,
The cashier ask’d the boy if he! qj, jjg riding was
knew a good text for a banker, and ■ struck by an automobile at
the lad replied: “Not slothful ■’'> j'ThomasviUe Wednesday, were
business, fervent in spirit, serv.ng pooducted from Center Baptist
the Lord.” The banker thought church Friday afternoon at 2
ilsHere
IN AND SEE IT AND TAKE!
> A RIDE
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MURRAY TIRES
MURRAY BATTERIES
TIRES AND BATTERIES ARE STILL
CHEAP. BUY YOUR SPRING NEEDS
NOW. ^ 1'
SEAT COVERS
COUPE $1.50—COACH AND SEDAN $2.50
WILEY BROOKS and JETER CRYSEL
The Motor Service Co.
NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C.
this a good text.
But on second thought th’ bank
er suggested a better text would
be: “Gather up the fragments th:c
remain—that nothing be lost.”
Christ was a great economist.
Niswonger Will Visit
Fruit Growers Feb.
8-9
He did not want to see anything cemetery.
o’clock. The services were in
charge of Rev. H. A. Bullis, Rev.
D. O. Cleary and Rev. J. E.
Hayes. «
Following the services, inter
ment was made in the church
wasted, whether food, money, time
or talents, siad Mr. Williams,
who added that Christ had a great
deal to say about money matters
and the attitude of man toward
material wealth. “So much so,
that w’ are justified in concluding
that the way in which an indi
vidual organizes his financial pro
gram has much to do with his
character and development,” he
stated.
Quoting further from Mr. Wil
liams’ sermon:
“Christ gave us 38 parables, 16
of which refer to a man’s relation
A native of Wilkes county, Mr.
Elledge had been making his
home in High Point for more I
tlian a year. He was a son of Ed j
Elledge, of this city. I
The motorcycle was driven by
Charlie Andrews, a brother-in-
law of Mr. Elledge.
Fruit growers of Wilkes will
have the benefit of the advice and j
assistance of -H. R. Niswonger, j
state horticulturist, Thursday I
jand Friday, February 8-9. De-I
I tails of the program which will i
I be carried out during Mr. Nis- j
wonger’s visit will probably 'be
[announced the latter part of the
week.
Three Die As Home Bums •
Greenville, N. C-, Jan. 26—Three -
negro children were burned to'
death near Stokes last night when
fire trapped them in the attic of
their home, which was destroyed.
16 CONDEMEND MEN
AWAIT EXECUTION
IN STATE PRISON
Raleigh, Jan. 26.—The 16 small
tomb-like cells on death row at
stats’s prison were all filled today
to money, and I have seen the
with condemned men awaiting the
\niy Doctors Favor
a UquM Laxative
statement that throughout the four
gospels, one verse in everj' eight,
bears on this subject. He takes
money, th“ essential factor in life,
sordid though it sometimes seems,
and plays it up strongly.
“Men and women must have j the possibility of an
money. For while it is only a, cancy.
medium of exchange and cannot. Cooper, who was to have been
actually sustain life, clothe the j electrocuted Friday for the murder 1
or shelter the head, it is, of J. N. Lasater. was reprieved'
beck of the executioner.
Arrival of three prisoners under
sentence to di’ from Person coun-!
ty filled the row of cells, and aj
reprieve gra>ited today to Theo-;
dore Cooper, of Durham, removed
early wa-
body
THE BOOK
. . . the first line of which reads, “The Holy Bible”
and which contains Four Great Treasures . . .
By BRUCE BARTON
OUR FIRST LAWS j
One of the wicked decrees of Pharoah was that
every son who was bom to the Hebrews should be j
cast into the river. The mother of Mos^s managed
to hide her baby for three months, and then, unable
to secret him any longer, she made a little cradle
and s t him aflo.at in the River Nile near the spot
where the daughter of Pharaoh and her maidens ^
came down to bathe. J
Pharaoh’s daughter took compassion on the piti-,
fui little voyager, carried him with her to the pal-,
ace and rear’d him as her own. She gave him his,
name, Moses, which means “drawn-out”: “because.”,
she said. “I drew him out of the wat?r.” The boy i
grew up and with all the educational advantages
which the palat’ could give, but his heart was true’
to his people. He developed physical .strength
which was needed when he ran afoul of an Egyptian
taskmaster who was abusing a poor Hebrew work
man. Mos's slew the man and hid his body, and,
formed then and there the determination to set the
Hebrews free. j
With his brother Aaron, who was a good talker,
which Moses was not, he carried e'xtended negotia-1
tions with Pharaoh, enforcing his arguments by a
nevertheless indispensable, because until March 2 in order that inter-]
it and it alone, under ordinary cir-' ested efforts may be made to cap-
cumstances enables us to obtain, ture Sylvester Hood, who has been |
these comforts. j implicated in the killing. j
“One of the outstanding prob- It was the first time in months
hms of the average individual’s that the “row” had been filled, and
life is how to obtain money for‘if no vacancies are creat’d by I
this and that. j death or executive clemency any
“I do not know anything more | other condemned men brought to
dangeroue than money, and a the prison will have to be plac'd
man’s attitude towards it. It is in the row of cells immediately 1
easy to argue with Paul and his' above.
opinion that ‘the love of money,’ ] The three condemned prisoners
which is a wrong attitude to-^brought here from P’rson county!
wards it, ‘is the root of all kinds. were Spice Sittings, Walter Thax-
of evil.’ ! ton and Tom Williams, all negroes.
“A host of Biblical characters i who were sentenced to die for
failed because of their wrong atti-1 murder.
riTH a sincere de
sire to be of ser
vice, we organized a
Burial Association. Num
bers of people are joining
daily and we hope you,
too, will help by coming
to see us.
We need your help and
you need the protection.
Reins-Sturdivant
Ine.
■TME FUNERAL
HOMB”
Phones—
Day - 86
Night - 86-ni
A doctor will tell you that the care
less choice of laxatives is a cominoa
cause of chronic constipatioa.
Aijy hospital ofTers evidotca of the
barm done by harsh.laxatives that
drain the system, weaken the bowel
mnscles, and even affect the liver
and Iddneys.
Fortunately, the public is fast
I returning to laxatives in liquid furm.
The dose of a liquid laxative can be
I measured. The action can thus be
controlled. It forms no habit; yon
needn’t take a “double doee” a day
or two later.
Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin baa
the average person's bowels regular
as clockwork in a few weeks’ time.'
\Vhy not try it? Some pill or tablet
may be mere convenient to carry.
But there is little “convenience” m
any cathartic which is taken so'
frequently, you must carry it with
you, wherever you go I
i Its very taste tells you Dr. Cald
well’s Syrup Pepsin is whole.some. A
delightful taste, and delightful action.
{ Safe for expectant mothers, and
children. Ail drug^sts, ready for
use, in big bottles. Member N. R. A.
tude towards money. There was
the rich young ruler, who cam'?
to Jesus to find the way of rghte-
ous living. H’ had obeyed all the
commandments from his youth,
but he did not have the right con
ception of monev. -\nd when
Jesus suggested that this was the
‘o"e thing he lacked’, and pointed
out the rem’dy, he went away
sorrowful.
“Zaccheus, at one period of liis
life had a wrong atijtude, but
when he came in contact with
Thaxton and WilPams are un-
d’r sentence to die March 24 and
Sittings’ date has been fixed for
March 30. Appeals to the state
supreme court, however, probably I
will nullify these dates. I
Four men had been scheduled to ,
die Friday, but Governor Elhring- [
haus previously had reprieved the '
other three. They were John L. I
Eklwards, of Charlotte; ■Clyd'’ Fer
rell, of Durham, and James John- _
son, of Hoke county. (
In reprieving Cooper, who was
Jrsus, and our Lord touched his convicted of killing for a fee.
that .stood betw'en him and Chris-. he would not in the future com
, J c i' • ' penes of ten plagues that descended upon the!
the profit motive is eliminated from business ^gyptij
IS about the most foolish thing to which he
ever gave utterance.
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atroy
Egyptians. In the end he was allowed to lead the!
Hebrews forth into the wilderness, but Pharaoh
changed his mind at the last moment and gave pur-1
To eliminate the profit motive is to de- su't- R was a fatal decision. The Red Sea, which
initiative. That “necessity is the i Hebrews pass through,
, « . ,. . X ^ 1 i. 4.U T ' closed up on Pharaoh and his army and drowned
mother of invention is an eternal truth. In them everyone. So MOS’S was launched on his
’Bke manner, the hope of getting ahead, ofi career as leader of a grumbling, short-sighted and'
rS^ tising above the average is a powerful in- discontented lot of ex-slaves, who continually an-
rl"- ^ration which, as Julian S. Miller says in "oyed him with their complaints that th y would |
i-'f'his column, “Event and Comment,” in thei slavery than wandering
Charlotte Observer, “.makes you go out and
bring hortie the bacon
When J. R. Wallace of Hick
ory, Catawba county, opened his
trench silo recently to begin '
tian living, he had a real desire ^ mute his sentence,
to mend his ways, and Jesus placed
His stamp of approval upon his
new found purpose.
“What should we do. with our
money?
the "xpenditure of it forms char
acter ... (Dr. Gayler used to sav,,
‘What a man earns in the day jn rented homes or apa,’tments. I
J feeding, he found the ensilage In
We all earn a i e. -an condition. None needed to j
be discarded, he said.
rather be back
j free in the wilderness
I Moses was not only a leader but an “xecutive as
well, thanks partly to his father-in-law, Jethro-
goes into his pockets, but what he ,Jq pot believe this is a wholesome
spends in the evening goes into state of affairs.”
his character.’) !
“Should we sav’ a part of our |
income? Jesus believed in it:j
“Gather up the fragments that re- [
main that nothing be lost.
The American people are not ready, and That wise old gentleman, visiting him in the wil
we tiiist never will be, to accept the socialis
tic form of government. Our recent devel
which have come about through
tthe NR A, are not indications that we want
demess on a day when he was holding court, saw
the tr’mendous pressure which was on him in his j
combined capacity of ruler and judge, and pro
tested:
Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and
this people that is with thee: for this thing is
too heavy for thee; thou art not able to per
form it thygelf alone.
Acting on the old man’s sound advice, Moses as
sociated certain other upright men with him as
judgres and thus it came about that the people were
of Ulbor, y€8, but never say to a man, provided *not only with a law—^through the Ten
cannot get lAead merely by working Commandments and the comprdiensive Mosaic
ier than the dther fdlow.” ^.Code—but with a judiciary as well. - U
''c'- the government to destroy business and
'adopt a government-controlled fojm of so-
heiety. Rather, the NRA has and is serving
'only as a protection for business and labor
Set a minimum standard for the
“The individual who practices
consist'ntly the saving habit, if he
begins at an early age, need not
fear poverty. Some one has sa'd:
“To be young and poor is a bles
sing and an asset; but to be old
and poor, and dependent, is a ca
lamity,
“Everyon' who sqves is building
a ladd^ to a better and bigger
job; and every dollar saved makes
the ladder longer. He is taking
precaution against illness, accident
and old age. and •'very dollar
makes security more secure. He
is sharpening a keen tool with
which to conquer opportunity.
“I have seen a stat^ent thgt
more than 60 per cent of the pop-
of our country are living
BuiidUpHealth
and Pains Go Away
WOMEN who suffer from weak
ness often have many aches and
pains whiob a strooasr state ot health
wotild prevent. '
Woman'in this oondftlon idiould
take Cardui. a purely vegetable tonlo
that has bion In use for over 60 years.
Take Cardui to Improve the general
tone of the system In eases of run
down health and “tired norree."
Women have found, fat such eases,
that Cardui helps them to OTeroame
pains and suUm the monthly periods
eaider.
CABDDI la safe and 'whmesdme
for women of all ages. Trif Itt
Boid .^ the drag stota 3^
The tax penalty goes on FEBRUARY
1st. Wilkes County needs .Hie money.
There’s no way to get around paying
taxes. The longer you wait the more
bui^CRSotne they are. Pay. today and
get ’em out of your mind.
W. a SOMERS
SHERIFF AND TAX COLLECTOR.