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ot h«mes. Mta8.H»rf4«t
•,^^wO®to,^' WUkea, home 'demoo-
adntlon ««ent; Mid totaj. :
MIm Whlenant wrlred todof
-U» wm spend todsr. Tsesday
Md Wednesday anons hoihes for
«• pnrimse of seortnc them In
«6 kltdhln improremeot oontest
AiBonc home demonstration cluto
jPmeii. She Tlalted the bomes in
''•hmajry, 1988, vhep they were
•Btered for the oonteat.'
Mlaa McOoogan also said that
JOas Whlsnant will Tlalt other
Bomos and make reoommenda-
ttOBa relattre to improyement of
Hying rooms.
I^eviewing news of
^ WILKES DURING 1939
tContinued from page one)
! Jannary 30—Reports shows
Wilkes climbed from 99th to 84tb
Ih teacher training in ten years.
I'etoruary 2—Duke Power com
pany approves constraction of
iQukk A(f ion
Rates: Ic A Word
(Each Insertion)
(MINIMUM CHARGE SSe)
FOR SALE
HUNTDra UOHNSBS for sale at
Jenkins Hardware Company’s
Store. l-4-2t
FIVE-ROOM HOUSE, large lot on
Cherry street in' Wilkesboro.
Low price, can arrange terms.
3oe B. J. Kennedy, Wilkesboro.
l-ll-4t-pd
FOB SALE; Singer Sewing Ma
chine, good condition, 135.00.
Mrs. Jake Chui-ch, Mayflower
Beauty Shoppe, Phone 189.
l-4-3t-pd
1989 FORD V-8, good condition,
rjflce for quick ,'iale. Mrs. J.
M. iltSCKrter, hear Broadway
Service Station on Highway
421. l-l-2t-pd.
19SS PLYMOUTH Ooach, good
condition, radio, small down
payment and msaume 8 pay
ments of 924 each. Includes
earrylng charges. R. S. Long-
adre, Phone 379. It-pd.
ONE MULE FOR SALE; age 9
years, weight 1200 pounds,
good condition, sound as a dol-
' Imr. See James H. Yates, Wll-
'keeboro, N. C. 12-26-3H»d.
UNUSUAL BARGAINS in good
used cars and trucks, several
suikes and modela Wilkes Mo
tor company, two miles west
on Boone Trait. 10-2-tf
line west on highway
6r; W. R. to
Ridge,
^ 4pW»raary WPA prolwt’ttr
and eurfhoing Oak-
«Mda road approved. - -"t?
J,-Ternary 4—J. L. Turner, pl-
neer business man, found dead
iflisd.
;^'l!^ffuary 9-r—Bar association
proposed county court for Wilkes.
" ^^«*ry 18—Puibllc assistance
grante for month total $5,800.
February 19 — Gny Lyon,
Wilkes electrical dealer, dies.
Ifebruary 23—Bill to 'place
election of Wilkes welfare officer
in hands of welfare board passed
and recalled; later .passed and
ratified.
February 23—Five-mile power
line extension In Somers town
ship approved.
February 27—Klwanis club
asks that legislature pass adver
tising bill for Wilkes. gr!intlng
county and city authority to ap
propriate funds for publicity; bill
was later introduced by Senator
Cowles and passed.
February 27—Claude Pearson’s
store near Purlear burns.
February 27—Henry Wellborn,
local barber, badly hurt in motor
cycle-truck collision near Cricket.
March 2—Annual goodwill bas
ketball tournament at North Wll-
kesboro school; Millers Creek
boys, Roaring River girls win
ners.
March 13—Flu epidemic puts
many In bed, hampers school at
tendance and curtails production
in local Industries; few deaths
Stoves, Heaters, and Ueatrolas
•-Rbodes-Day Is the place to bay
hem. Prices to salt yonr pocket-
lK>k. Rhodes-Day Furniture Go.
10-9-tf
FOR SALE: I have two used
typewriters, both standard ma
chines, in good condition, that
I will sell at a bargain. Come
in and look them over, find me
up stairs over Dr. Taylors Of
fice, 9 th Street. W. G. Harri
son. 1-1-tf
If it is anything you need^in
the stove or beater line, be sure
to see ns. We have a wide selec
tion.—Rhodes-Day Forniture Co.
10-9-tf
EN)R SALE: International T-20
Crawler Tractor, one year old
No. 25 Caterpillar. 1939 Bulck
41 and 61 Sedans. 1939 Ford
DeLuze Station Wagon. Henk
el’s, Statesville, N. C. 12-28-9t
WANTED
WANTED: Tenant with stock for
farm between Traphlll and
Austin. W. H. McElwee.
12-18-tf.
YANTED: To do yonr radio re
pair work on all makes and
models. Elzpert repairmen. Sat-
Isfactlof 'tuaranteed. — Day
Electric Co., Phone 328. 8-10-tf
WAN'TED: Bring yonr typewrit
ers, cash registers, Adding Ma
chines, computing scales, check
writers, clocks, and sewing ma
chines that need repairing and
cleaning to me up stairs over
Dr. Taylor’s Dental Office, 9th
Street. Satisfactory service
guaranteed on all work, leave
orders at Carl W. Steele Jewel-
ery store. Phone 384. W. G.
Harrison. 1-1-tf
Mnreh 1$—CUngnlAn
ginM Into new- _
? Man* -16—Otto Haihpton, no-
gro, g^r^B you* fov... ortinlniri
„ .March 17—Legion-.ge^^i^i
Both gnttlrenaryv...-
SariA 19-7-John Andrew
shot and killed by son-fH'4a^/
Sam Dodson.
March 29—Mayor R. T. McNlel
and aldermen annoance candidacy
for re-election.
(March 22—Bill to district
Wilkes Jnto three districts' for
election commissioners introduc
ed In legislature by Frank Wood-
house of Elkin; bill was later
'Passed; senate committee kills
bill to establish county court
March 24—Klwanians propose
50th anniversary celebration for
North Wllkeaboro in 1940.
March 24—Bill setting Jail
board at 40 cents per day passed
by legislature.
April 3—New candidates for
city offices file; new ticket head
ed by Ralph R. Reins for mayor.
April 2—Evelyn Riggs, age six,
killed (by car driven iby Mrs. Dovie
Pierce nbar Millers Creek,
April 3—C. B. Eller re-elected
superintendent Wilkee schools.
April 6—Tom Sprinkle dies of
knife wounds inflicted by broth
er, Vernon Sprinkle.
April G—City fathers decide to
surface cobblestones on Ninth
street.
April 10—Registration for city
primary heavy. ,
April 10—Fire at Moravian
Falls bums three buildings.
April 12—Sam Adams, Traphlll
man, killed by car driven by
Kelly Pipes; ■ both were WPA
workers.
April 13—Representatives of
Grit make survey of North Wil-
kesboro as typical thriving town.
April 17—Mayor R. T. McNiel
re-elected; Ralph Duncan, W. K. I
Sturdivant, Hoyle Hutchens, J. B. I
Carter and A. G. Finley elected
commissioner.s.
April 17—^State representatives
at World’s Fair told of advant
ages in Wilkes; also about tour
ist attractions.
April 20—Wllkeaboro town
, Nfll netf itJmpliS
«chooI-f April 20-
Roaring Rlvei;^ killed *by
. 20—wilkesboro aeitodl
board'3^^ tp elect Mx legchers.
isetlaa bf coanty teord;
S(^o^ tiieii postponed for MO
April 21—^Hlglt^ uhboU of
county system complete v
ful year. -iv.
April 2 B—airs. R. M. Finley,
well known resident of this citK
dies.
April 26—M. 0. Butner and
Arthur Forester killed in auto
truck colUslon on highway 116;
H. V. Overcasb and Gordon For
ester badly hnrt.
April 27—^Anbry Kitts and
John A. Kitts, West Virginia des
peradoes, taken by Wilkes offi
cers.
(Ooatlnned Thursday)
Stalsy, of
car
Mrs. Pearl Ehirtley, who is
teaching near Goldsboro, Miss
Lncile Hartley, her danghter,
who is teaching at Seaboard, N.
C., and her son, Mr. Nell Hartley,
a memiber of the Durham high
school faculty, spent Saturday
night with Prof, and Mrs. T. E.
Story, Mrs. Hartley’s brother, en-
route from Boone -where they
spent the Christmas holidays.
It A Ciuididate
Jim Rivers, Boone newi9i4>-
erman, has amMKmced his can
didacy for the Densocratlo boib-
inatlon for oomgrtpB In the
Ninth disitrict, whldi for nuuiy
years baa been represented by
R. L. (Farmer Bob) Doo^iton.
Reeding the ads, gets you more
for less money. Try it.
$4
, ^ .....
" Washington, . l>ee,: Si'.—A Jp»d-
get ooatainfng some ;''snrj|>lhMs”
^nut predl«»d _ . __
ory of||d^%]9hiig PreisliMwl
Rooeevelt wmOMttiirWresFoyatK:
eats he hai|.arrirpd at a f^gaa-
glire vhidt bp eattad '*goo(t
f. 'What t^^iwrprians mi^l:Jbil;
as official >^d not
nor -wonld jKr^ Robeevelt refMl
his total birilgft. Agars.
■' But reporlnVof *ppariiijs,^^u-
Uientlclty have platfad
get’s total at about $9,S6l,^()0,r
000, with a deficit in the neigh
borhood of $2,000,000,000. Both
figures are smaller than the cor
responding items for the nrrent
fiscal year.
The budget, to be sent to Con
gress Thursday, is the essratlve
department’s outline of projposed
government ezpendltnrss in the
new fiscal year, beghmimr nant
July 1. A messenger will take it
from the White House to the capl-
tol, but the President will deliver
In person the previous day—^Wed
nesday—his annual message on
the state of the nation.
Among the thousands of fig-
»»0,000,9(l
1tor relief, i
sfensaaxpendltu
crsuiSel'by $fi«0.«00,00l
The bUUon dollsr rtftlig
by a tress |gOmperes nitb a fnnd of
llSOO,000,(100 for_tba
Square Dance T6 ,
OnrFrldasr
Whnt ^ daMfibed by Laglf
oait^ asd ^jUaffiary
the ^bUfeni dance of the (
«Ul%^|liaie Arne
liOidoD w Anxilfary elobho
6n rrtingr Laidon offlc
said today.
The square dance, to begin j
eight o’clock, will have one of i
best sMng bands obtainable
the night and an.enjoyable
easion ia assnred all who -will
tend.
....Miss Gray Greane, a member i
the faenlty the Barhun SprlnJ
orpbanags near Statesville, spe^
the Chrlstnigs season with reh
tires at Roaring River and Wi|
keabMo. Miss Greene is head
the music department of the co$
lege.
MISCELLANEOUS
LOST; Pair gold rimmed spec
tacles. Liberal reward for re
turn to Mrs. P. W. Eshelman.
l-l-2t
WE ARE PR£3’ABED to fornisb
yon kerosene and fuel oil at
wholesale price at any time and
any quantity. We deliver. Red
dies River Service Station, J.
H. Jolnes, Phone 586. 11-8-tf
HE MiSJLiED. There air
millions of circulating heaters,
but only one Genuine Elstate
Heatrola. Look for the name
Heatrola. It appears on no oth
er cabinet except an Estate.—
Rhodes - Day Furnitnre Co.,
North Wilkesboro, N. C.
WILL SELL Studio Piano to re
sponsible party wtio will as
sume payments of $1.75 per
week. Write I. C. Church, Wll
keaboro, N, C. 12-14-4t
Cold weather Is Jost ahead. Be
-wtpaied by letting ns tnstnil one
onr stoves or heaters for coal
w«H>d. ,->r It II oil-barnliig beat-
—Rliodes-Dn) Furniture Co.
lO-9-tf
Seme people don't appreciate how really cheap my terviset ore.
ore tome figures that will open your eyes:
Here
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The expenditures for odmiiiion
to moving picture theaters during
1935 was $750,000,000 — obout
$50,000 more than oil the residen
tial and form customers in the
United States paid for oil the elec
tricity they used thot your.
Federal taxes olone on liquor and
tobacco ore 1 Vi times the total
poid by 21 million American homes
for electric service.
Again—the total cost of elec
tricity to oil the families in the
United States is less than American
automobile owners pay in foxes on
gasoline—not for the gas itself,
but just for the privilege of buying
it.
SlwJy those figures a lltrta ond y?-.) will opprecite more Hion ever how
chaoply-l work for you.
your Servant,
Reddy Kilowatt
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