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iOBSCRIPTlON RATES:
'0i» Tear _i ji 50
8bt Mostha . 75
jPoor Months 60
Out of the State $2.00 per Year
■■twed at tin port office mt North Wilkes
■5*& •* mcond data matter onder Art
of Mareh 4, 187S.
THURSDAY, NOV. 2, 1939
' Need Heating Plant
.. For tihe past several years grand juries
' kavo been recommending that a heating
, be installed in the Wilkes county
eonrthouse. It has become the usual, rath
er than the unusual^ for a grand jury to
XMke that recommendation.
, Two or more boards of commissioners
have failed to make provision for the much
needed improvement They did not fail to
* do so because they did not think it was
best; they merely followed the wishes of
the people who elected them by trying to
be as economical as possible in carrying on
the affairs of the county.
. Like people of other counties, Wilkes
property owners hate to pay taxes and the
people who have managed the affairs of
the county have tried to keep the tax rate
as low as possible. As a result the tax rate
is much lower than that of many counties
and has been for several years.
But in keeping the tax rate down it of
ten develops that much needed improve
ments must wait to be carried out and a
heating plant for the courthouse happens
to be one of those.
In the courthouse are many fireplaces
and heaters. Elach one consumes fuel, to
say nothing of the trouble and inconveni
ence of firing so many places In the jail
there is a heating plant which occasionally
needs repairs and has to be fueled.
It looks to an outside observer as if a
good central heating plant for both build
ings would be efficient and economical.
That would mean fueling only one fire and
if the plant was of the right type and con
struction cost of repairs would be neglible.
In addition to a possible fuel saving, there
would be a great improvement in the com
fort of people who must ocxupy the court
house and those who for one reason or
another must be in jail.
There would be no coal dust and soot in
every room and a great part of the labor
would be eliminated, giving the janitor
time to better care for the building and
grounds.
The added comfort to the people in the
courthouse would be conducive to better
and more work and would be a decided
improvement from the standpoint of
health of the officers and employes.
People who deal with the problem of
taxes have to reckon with two classes of
people: one wants lower taxes and the
other wants more benefits. Occasionally
the same individual wants both at the
same time.
Wilkes property, like that of many oth
er counties, cannot stand a very high tax
rate. Yet, there are certain things almost
indispensible in the course of running the
county affairs and tax revenue is a vital
necessity. And there are times when tem
porary savings untimately result in false
economy.
National Apple Week
We have just been reminded that this is
^-l^ational Apple Week and it would be in-
S-i deed fitting that we consume an extra
amount of the luscious fruit this week.
Apples are one of the leading crops in
= Wilkes and the consumption of apples di
rectly affect^ the welfare of many of our
people and the economic welfare of
Wilkes and adjoining counties. We should
not on^ be interested in production of
^ more ^d better apples but we should take
an active interest in every movement to in
crease the consumption of apples.
Big publicity and advertising campaigns
for citrus fruit have lined the pockets of
the citrus growers and allied interests and
have caused a decrease in the use of ap
ples. This must! be matched by boosting
apples for the sake of health and real eat
ing enjoyment. Every person can help in
the cause and should let no opportunity to
popularize the fruit pass without using it
to the fullest advantage. ^
Boy an extra bushel of apples this week.
“Hitler ” says an overseas dispatch,
. '«wa8 beside himself." We can only say
^ that a fellow is known by the company he
i^eps.—Detroit News.
Americans must view the world situa
tion seriously, or they never would suggest
kwpS session.—Pittsburgh
[6 erperti
n’l mwt. Why not? The women
^ SM& is thn ^nunml.
JOURN^IrPATRlbT. N0®TH
BcNTTowed
RATHER PAY 'HlAN FIGHT
(Shelby Daily Star)
The United States is definitely opposed
to sending men across to right Europe s
battles. This does not mean that our peo
ple are lacking in patriotism. They would
go the limit in defense and since the siriia-
tion has arisen in Europe, the sentiment of
Uiis country is predominantly in favor of a
stronger national defense.
Report} has it that President Roosevelt
will propose a preparedness appropriation
of $2,800,000,000 at the January session
of Congress and while business is now bur
dened with taxes and debt, it had much
rather meet the additional taxes that will
be imposed to strengthen our army and
navy than to be plunged into war.
In the past we have heard speakers cry
that “war lords want war for the profit
they reap.” Little do we hear of this talk
now. War is destructive, not only of men
but of propertly and morality. So called
“big business” does not profit from either
of these. If profits should come, the gov
ernment is all set to seize them in the form
of taxes.
Up in Washington, our representatives
are trying to devise ways and means of
keeping us out of the conflict abroad.
Some have one solution, some another. All,
however, have the same peaceful purpose
in mind.
Billions of foreign dollars are in this
country ready to buy supplies if and when
the neutrality bill offered by the Presi
dent is enacted into law. Seven billions be
long to Great Britain and Prance. Ano
ther five billion was invested in the United centennial of the church 76 years
States by British individuals. This has been,ago.
confiscated in a manner by the British Mrs. Elizabeth Redding, wife of
government for the purpose of buying war the late Allen Redding who has
A.VA I' t' AiAitiSiSsed her fourscore and ten be-
needs, England did
not exactly confiscate the mone^y of ite
subjects in _the United States,^ but issuedheard from her. she has been
in the home of her son, “Jafle
Redding” for the past three or
four years.
Masonic Grand Liecturer, Mr.
John Marquette, of Statesville,
lectured last week at night to
RONDA, Route I, Oct «0.—r
Last Monday a week ago Clarke
Pardue, the two or three year old
baby boy of Mr. and Mrs. Luther
Pardue, of Brier Creek commun
ity was playing with a piece of
glass striking it against someth
ing when 41 piece of it struck his
eye and "put it out”, his Uncle
Martin said.
V/e were saddened at the pass
ing of dear old Aunt Julia Car-
render, aged 94, of Boonvllle last
Sunday, afternoon. She has been
an invalid for years.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. H. Sale and
Barbara Jean, with Mr. and M^'s.
Robt. Key, Misses Zelma and
Hattie Bell Key were luncheon
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard
Denny of Pilot Mountain October
22.
Miss Emma Pardue made Miss
es Mattie and Armisa Sale a
pleasant call last Tuesday on her
way to spend the day with her
niece. Miss Polly Pardue, who is
convalescing nicely since her re
turn from Hugh Chatham Hos
pital.
Miss Jettle Harvlll writes her
friends that she attended the
175th anniversary of her church
—Presbyterian — 1“ Statesville
last Sunday and attended both
services. A picnic dinner was
spread, half of It was not eaten,
about 5,000 people attended. One
man was there who attended the
’ N. C/?
(SjtriiiTul
night. It wa» well rendered and
laifialy attendedO ' - ig?*- ^
- ilr and Mrs. Kermlt" Pardue
called oh hdr old ’*chams”, Mrs.
Gaither Gentry and Mra. Ruth
Hayes, of Winston-Salem, at the
home of her mother and grand
father, Mrs. Yetral Boyd and Mr.
R. S. Walker.
Mr. Arley Pardue was the din
ner guests of Masters Tom~'~and
Joe Pardue ■ after Brier Creek
Sunday school.
Kermit Vestal, Arvllle Pardue
Tisited the peraimimon trees and
haw trees on Holly Hill yesterday
afternoon.
t^ yaaae make immediate settle*
' QsirtAar qf ^ eetrttLitf
" iVP. B. Miked,
(t)
long term British bonds to those indivi
duals in lieu of their money invested in
this country.
There is a great back-log of war orders
to be filled when the neutrality law goes
through and then we may expect an added
impehus to business. Business, large and
small, does not want war and had rather
pay fra stronger national defense than
see this country enter the conflict. The
cost will be heavy in dollars and cents, but
if actual combat can be avoided, isn’t it
better to preserve our peace with money
than with our blood?
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CONSOLIDATION OF COUNTIES?
(Morganton News-Herald)
There is real food for thought in the fol
lowing commer^t from a recent ,issu^ of the
Greensboro Daily News, and we are in
agreement with it, but it leaves us won
dering just where such a movement as it
proposes would find its start in North
Carolina and how much trouble it would
leave in its wake:
“What we need to do,” says the Georgia
stete junior chamber of commerce, “is to
consolidate over half of our present coun
ties. With present-day traveling and com
munication facilities, only one county is
needed now where 30 years ago possibly
three were needed. It is to the intere.st of
every taxpaying citizen that this needless
extravagance and waste be stopped.” “If
the junior chamber can drive home the
good sense of this appeal to the point of
action, it will have rendered Georgia an in
calculable service,” says the Atlanta Geor
gian.
And that action will be an example set
for the neighbor states that will also be of
service beyond calculation. Meanwhile,
North Carolina offers a field for like labor
similarly promising of profit for some such
vigorous and capable agency as the junior
chamber of commerce.
The Georgian says that “carerful stu
dents of the matter have long held that
elimination of unnecessary counties, with
their multiplied costs, would save enough
money to put all the proper agencies of
government on a sound, efficient and pro
gressive ba.sis.” Careful students long ago
came to much the same condition as to
North Carolina.
DEPRESSING
(Asheville Citizen)
Among the depressing news items of the
week is the bankruptcy petition filed by
Miss Sally Rand. Sally—so the story goes
—can’t pay her creditors, despite reports
of a six-figure income a year or so ago.
Is this the end of an era? Has the car
nival spirit evaporated, like one of Sally’s
bubble balloons, before the onslaught of a
materialistic world? We hope not. Any
way, Sally is a resourceful young woman,
expert at grabbing the limelight or on or
off the stage. Who can forget her famous
lecture to Chicago advertising men? __ ^
Sally will be back, we predict, and with parents, Mr. Martin an*’ Mrs. Par-
something new and different, or the art of due.
press agent^ is dead. Camera! Lights!'
Action! Give the little girl a great big
hand-out!
State College Answ«ra
Tfanely Farm Question
Question: How far apart should
apple trees 'be set in a new orch
ard?
Answer: Am)le trees should be
set at least 36 feet aipart in the
row. This distance also appUes to
pear trees, but for ipeach, plum,
and chenr trees the distance Is
reduced to 25 feet. In setting the
trees, be sure that the hole is
large enough to keep from bend
ing the roots and deep enough so
that the young trees are about
two incheti deeper than they stood
In the nursery. However, If the
roots are extremely long, they
may 'be trimmed to around eight
inches from the stem.
THURSDAY, NOV. 2, 1989
State Colleire Answen
TimSbr
ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE
Having qualified as administra
tor of ue estate of Ida McNeill^
deceased, late of Wilkes counj^,
Nortt Carolina, this is to notify
all persons having claims against
the estate of said deceased to ex-1
hibit them to the undersigned at
Moravian Palls, N. C., on or be-j
fore the 27th day of Septembert'
1940, or this notice will be plead,
in bar of their recovery. All per-'
sons indebted to said estate will
please make immediate settlement.'
T^his the 27th day of Sept., 1939.;
C. D. HARRIS,
Administrator of Ida McNeill, I
deceased. ll-9-6t!
V NOIKStOCBEDIfOSS
Hsvfaur qaaUfied as adsailBistri^
tor of-m Mtato of ToUos Handy,
lata of-WQkw Ooim^, Norft €a^
olina, titia b to notify aS psMona
koltmc daios «nkirt aiiff rtttate
to presort IkWB TO tt#,tindCTatitBed
foT'pnyinM dnlvT^VUdfisd on or
bofore.tiMn lOtk day of Oetobsr,
i»40, or tids notice will be pleaded
In ber of reeovsry. AH psreone in
debted to nld estate trill nwke
immedbte srttlement.
Thb tile 10th day of Oct., 1989.
J. G. BILLINGS,
Administrator of Tobias Handy,
deceased. Lomaoc, N. C.
Uie-fltpd
~ NOTICE
NORTte CAROLINA.
WILKES COUNTY.
Having qualified as Executor ol
the Elstate of P. A. Lomax, de
ceased, and having been ^pointed
as Administrator of the Estate of
Mrs. S. E. Lomax, dec’d., this b to
notify all persons having claims
against skid estate, or either of
them, to present them to the un
dersigned at his office in North
Wilkesboro, N. C., on or before the
10th day of October, 1940, or this
notice will be plead in bar of tiieir
right to recover.
This 10th day of October, 1939.
C. B. LOMAX,
Executor of Estate of P. A. Lo
max, deceased, and Administrator
of Estate of Mrs. S. E. Lomax,
deceased. 11-16-61
Fun QoMthn
Qaastioa: ShovU yoang
traea !>• praaad sash yaart
Ansawr: Thara b a’cartal
mourt of pranlng revaUti
year after the tresa are ph
This, however, depends upon fha
growtii of the branches and aesf-,
fold Umhe. Extension Cirenbr No.'
206 ‘Tnuring the Apple ''
teUs how and when to prana and
a copy may be secured by writbac
the Agricultural Editor at Stgta
College.
Honda Lodge.
Last Friday evening Mr. Alfred
Smith, of Winston-Salem, car
ried his mother, Mrs. Carrie
Smith, Messrs. Vance, and Gray
Pardue, and Bettie Jean, Kate
and Arville Pardue made Misses
Mattie and Armisa Sale an enjoy
able visit.
Worth Sale, Martin Pardue. Wal
ter Walker, J. H. Hacket and
Bessie Sale shucked excellent
crops of corn the past week.
- I^rs. Ma:pr Kat^ Sal^
came for her mother, Mrs. Lollie
Sale, last Friday and carried her
to spend her twenty-third birth
day with her in her new home in
Elkin.
Mr. Jimmie Freeman and Mrs.
Myres came home with Mrs. Sale.
Mr. Freeman carried a quantity
of green pine limbs to cover his
yard to protect the grass seeds he
had sown.
Misses Polly, Edith and Kate
Pardue called to visit Misses Mat-
tie and Armisa Sale Sunday
morning. Their sister, Florence,
and her husband, Kermit Pardue,
carried them over there and came
for them later.
Geo. H. Sale, Mrs. Sale and
Barbara Jean spent the week-end
with parents at Holly Hill and
visited their “aunties” also.
Mrs. Gaither Gentry, and son,
Billie, -with Mr. and Mrs. Dan
Hayes, of Winston-Salem, spent
the week-end with their mother,
Mrs. Vetra Boyd, and their grand
father, Mr. R. S. Wia’ker.
Mr. and Mrs. Luther Pardue
carried their little son, Clarke, to
Wilkes HospPal yesterday to have
his eye treated again. It is
thought now that perhaps his eye
is just dimmed and that it is not
"out” as was thought when he
first got the glass In It.
Mrs. Kate Alexander, of El-
wood, Indiana, Is spending some
time with her daughter, Mrs. Pau
line Kremer, of Mountain View.
Mr. Charles Burchette and his
sister, Mrs. Ernest Alexander, of
Elwood, Indiana, celebrated their
birthdays together at his home at
Clingman. His birthday was Sat
urday and hers Is today.
Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Smith and
son, J. W., daughter, Carolyn,
Mrs. Ernest Alexander, and son,
•lames, after attending the birth
day dinner at Clingman gave
their relatives at Holly Hill a few
minutes surprise.
Mr. Kermit Pardue and Mrs.
Pardue, of Cycle, spent the past
week-end with the Hmlly of her
Clingman school ijave a Hal-
Beware (3oog^
from common coldf
Hiat Hang On
F. D. R. WISDOM
(Columbia Sbate)
At a roadside grist mill two South Caro
lina farmers were talking.
“What you reckon’s gonner happen in
that war?”
“I d'jn’t know but I do know what I’m
gonner do about it.”
“What?”
“I’m gonner plant me a little more
.vriieat and oats, get me a few more hogs,
build me a new chicken house, and things
like that Then, if food goes up high. Fll
sell a lot of stuff. If not, FUi pirt some fat'
on my own ^
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EXECUTOR’S NOTICE
Having qualified as Ehcecutor of
the estate of W. B. Mikeial, late of
Wilkes county, N. C., this is to^
notify all persons having claims^
against said estate to present them |
to the undersigned, whose address j
is Summit, N. C., duly verified, on'
or before the 19th day of Octcber.i
1940, or this notice will be plead in|
bar of their right to recover. All,
persons indebted to said estate'
WILLIAMS
MOTOR
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from the
Family. Cow?
M t, how good cows do look* th«
milk on Purina Dairy Chow*.
A lot of cows are giving 2 to 3 gallon#
a day on it—ond keeping this up f»
months pfter cominc [ fresh. A good
cow really earns good feed. Try feed
ing her according to tr.e Purino Plan
and see how she pays you bock in lot*
of good milk, at low co*t per gallon.
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Company
North Wilkesboro, N. C.
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