11 ^ *• J|^OIdi,V toM^w W tto worti : «M w. 9. ^yri4s ejt Gvot^ ^0'2«»»tlaa, A ■In' -^.. - •’t til# l#no#t #nd 'aUMt ■ Onlui«ni MrUidajr knniiunt ew I I ^J*y **^ MlcW*««.>|i capitoI, at mH ■■■itog. Hi# atM^'#raa nlanaad ^ ' 5L^ al«ii*l b4|wi# to- CliarU# »M#«. oM«at OtAniMil|%>^ em- ^07#. ia fact tho OdM* Wpioye 1® t;li#^ autooiobil# (ndnatry In m*a of serrlce, on his 80th blp- May.^ C. VoCnon, agneral mana- K9t of Oldsmobilo, Vw host at th# party and invlt^ 800 reteran Oldsmoblle employes, each one PlWwt 'was able'to boast of a ■•Ttlce record of' -80 years or gH¥f« -WUh the cooipany. Prisl- 4ept Knudsen was the guest ■peaker at the erenlng and paid hU^ 'tribute to Blades for hia long and interestlag association ■Witt oldsmoblle. A. H, Brandel, g bllov worker of Blades’ and hims41t with a record of al years Oldsmoblle, wa« spokesman tot the old-timers and cited Inci- Sants of his early aabociatlon with mndee. Local and o'at-of-town S«ftr6nen ware also among the apedal guests. •Mr. Blades, known to hun- d!reds' as Charlie, bss become one of the legendary figures of the hadnetry,” said MoCuen who pre sided. “Not only Is he the old-| est anto worker In point of ser- Ttoe In the United States, but as a blacksmith be hammered out the front axle for the first com-1 Boreially successful automobile' produced in America, the 1S97 Oldsmoblle. Now 80 years of age, Charlie long ago abandoned sDch strenuous duties as swing ing a blacksmith’s hammer. He la. employed today as an Infor- Haigwood- matlon clerk In the tool division Campbell at. Oldsmoblle.** Craven—2 Blades was born In West Wal ton, County of Norfolk, England, December 30, 1359, and came to this country ■with his parents when five years old. *11167 settl ed on. a farm at Pettysvllle, some 12 miles south of Howell, Michi gan, and Charles, eldest of 12 chHdren, of whom seven are still nving, helped till the soil, attend- hSg schools whenerver he could be eiw.red by his father. At 1* he went West "to see the country,” and found a Jab bhlping the Unitell States survey- era lay out the linee for a trans- eontinental railway. Returning to Michigan, he served three years as blacksmith’s SdWventlce under William Peters of Pettysvllle. •I started at |50 a year and hoard,” Charlie sald~““Be3lde8, I had to do all the chores. The second year I ?ot $75, and the third $100—In gold. It wasn’t atgalnst the law to own gold then, and that $100 looked like a lot of money.” He then moved to I.ansing, to work as a full-fledged blacksmith 111 Clark’s Carriage Works, where he helped build R. E. Olds’ first antomotile, which Is now in the Smithsonian Institution in Wash- ii^n. He still has the hammer with which he fashioned the axles of that car 42 years ago. For some years he' constituted iiilvem the boUei^vid K ^ 'so hot that I moved It to • t^t Ogt^re, When the tent blew ewny for the second time, 1 mo8Q) tt Indoors again. At one or another, I guess I'v# had tty shop In ahnoet evejr building in tblg plant" Blate looked out the window of hb otflce In Building 40 as be SpoitA "A lot of buildings today,” he rsfl#et#d, “But I can' remember whan there wasn’t one in sight and I shot rabbits around here in the hM#l-nut brush that covered the countryside.” Mountain lions Beat Statesville Local High School Quint In Good Game To Win Fri* day 21 to 13 North Wllkesboro high school’s Mountain Lions entered the win ning column Friday night by a decisive 21 to 13 victory over a fast Statesville basketball team. Coach Jack Massey used nine players In the contest with every one showing good form despite the fact that the game was not on the home court. Steelman led in scoring -with seven points. The next game will be played at Stony Point Tuesday night and the Lions will try to avenge a defeat suffered last week at the hands of the Stony Point team. Lineups and individual scores of the games Friday night follow: North Wllkesboro Statesville Steelman—7 Huffman—5 Kenerly—2 Harris Robinett—4 Murdock Dancy Brown—5 Church Walters—3 Crook—2 Keller—1 Mayhew—1 Johnson MRS. N. D. SCHILL TAKEN BY DEATH Sister Of Mrs. Esbelnuin and T. u. McXiangtUin Dies In Charlotte Mis. Margaret McLaughlin Schiff, of Statesville, died in a Charlotte hospital at noon Sun day after an illness of two years. Funeral services was held this sf- tei-noon at 4 o’clock at the J. M. Harry funeral home. Rev. J. H. Pressley, pastor of First A. R. P. church of Statesville, officiated, and burial was in Elmwood ceme tery. Mrs. Schiff was the daughter of the late J. B. McLaughlin ana Margaret Oillespie McLaughlin of Charlotte. She was born October 10, 1902, and was married to Norman Davidson Schiff July 9, 1937. She Is survived by her husband and one daughter, Miss Catherine Schill; three brothers, S. B. McLaughlin and J. B. Mc Laughlin of Charlotte and Thom as G. McLaughlin of North Wll kesboro; also two sisters, Miss Catherine McLaughlin of Char lotte and Mrs. P. W. Eshelman of North Wllkesboro. Pallbearers at the services were James Brady, Robert Lee, Ralph Holmes, N. M. Lewis, George the entire “axle department” of Field, George Tuten, all of States- Uie Olds Motor Works. and John David Hunter of “I first set up my forge in the * Charlotte. Flower bearers were Bower House,” he said. “It was, members o' the Book Study club of Statesville and Mrs. Robert Lee, Mrs. W. M. James Pressly. Samle, and Mrs. WEDDI NG j|s|VITATIONS OR announcements ' 23 FOR ^3 50 -GR $4.25 100 :-R $6.75 Mrs. Mary Floyd Is Taken By Death Mrs. Mary E. Floyd, former resident of Raeford who had been making her home for the past several months with her daugh ter, Mrs. N. G. Landis, died ear ly Sunday morning at the home of Mrs. Landis in Wilkes! oro. She had been 111 for about two weeks. Mrs. Floyd is survived by three children: -Mrs. Landis, of Wllkes boro; John R. Floyd, of North Wllkeaboro; and William E. Floyd, of Sanford. Funeral service was held this afternoon, two o'clock at the Raeford Methodist church. to yeaft’• “I'our DauiAto^*'-^ iiav# Its local debot ThuradA)* . Friday at the - New 'Theatre. "Pour Wives,” Ui'ViliteBf Priscilla, Rosemary and Lola- Lane, and Gale Page play tB*. title roles, features the same cagt as “Four Daughters,’’ including John Garfield, who died in the original story. He returns In vP slon form In the new picture. Others in the original family portrait who are prominent in ■‘Four Wives” are Jeffrey Lynn, Claude Rains, Mary Robson, Frank McHugh, Dick Foram and Vera l/ewls, the gossipy “gate- swinger” of “Four Daughters.” There’s a new and very de lightful addition to the family, too. Eddie Albert, the young comedy start of “Brother Rat", plays the young doctor for whom Rosemary Lane successfully sets her wedding bonnet in the film. Rosemary, you will remember. Is the only one of the four daugh ters who didn’t “get her man’* in the earlier picture. Also added to the cast Is Henry O’Neill, in the role of Albert's father. Still other additions to the family tree are four girl babies. First of these to make her ap pearance in the film is the year- old child which is adopted by Lo la Lane and Frank McHugh in the story. Then Priscilla gives birth to a girl 'baby, and Lola caps that by having twin girls. “Four wives” takes up the story of the Lemp family where' ‘•Four Daughters’’ left off. The' two oldest daughters are already married, Priscilla, the youngest, widowed in the early film. Is about to marry her first love, played by Jeffry Lynn, when she J learns that she’s to have a baby i by her dead husband. The fourth j girl, Rosemary, puts on a matri-, monial campaign, as mentioned above, with the help of all her sisters. Suggested by the Fannie Hurst novel, “Sister Act”, the script was written by Maurice Hanllne, Philip G. and Julius J. Epstein. Michael Curtiz directed. Funeral Services For Mrs. Rumple Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon, at two o’clock, at Pleasant Grove Baptist church for Mrs. America Hanes Rumple, widely known lady of this com munity, who died early Friday morning at the Wilkes Hospital. Rev. R. R. Crater conducted the funeral services, being as sisted by Rev. D. G. Reece, of Jonesville. Active ipall bea.rers were neph ews of Mrs. Rumple, as follows: J. R. Calloway, C. W. Hanes, T. C. Calloway, J. R. Pardue, Tom- rale Felts, and J. W. Pardue. An abundance of flowers, beau tiful In profusion, and as a fit ting tribute of the esteem held for Mrs. Rumple by many friends, were carried by the following: Misses Ola Walsh, Marie Gray, Margaret Calloway, Edith Pardue, Etta Mathis, Mildred Ceilloway, Thelma Walker, Gay Nell Hanes, Alene Greene, and Annie Vee Walker. Clingman, N. C., Jan 13th Parsonville News Item Is Reported Although names and apparent ly much of the detailed Informa tion was omitted, the following news item received by The Jour nal-Patriot through the mail Is not wholly without Interest: “Notice to The Journal-Patriot of importance: There was a woman in Jobs Cabin township. It took three men to arrest her; and I don’t know how many It would take to arrest a bad man. Please post this Item from yours truly. Mar tin R. Spears at Parsonville, N. C .” Reavis Child Dies Bottjr Jane Reavls, Infant daughter of Roland H. and Sallle Jarvis Reaves, of this city, died early Sunday. The parents and one brother, R. J. Reaves, sur vive. Funeral and burial service was held today, 11 a. m. at the Baptist cemetery here. “Disease Germs That Have Learned to Jump.” A deadly kind of sleeping sickness that has -'graduated’’ from horses and found out how to attack human beings. Read this intereeting and Infomatlve feature in '^e Amer- Magazine, ‘^th next Washington Tlmea-Her- tiSSt nonr on sbIa AERIAL WARFARE Helsinki, Jan. 14.—Fires rag ed tonight in almost a dozen Finnish cities alter soviet air raids which officials described as the heaviest of the war. Communications were inter rupted in many plac-ss as bomihers roared over In unprecedented numbers. Several communities near Hel sinki sent urgent appeals for fire fighting help. Cities (bombed were the south west coast port of Hanko, Tam- misaari, RlUilmakl, Karjaa, Loh- ja, Lappvik, and a dozen others. Casualties were believed to be heavy. Three hundred bombs were re ported to have been dropped on Rajamaki, ad 150 were said to have rained on Karja. Both cities are in southern ETnIand. INTEREST Farmers of Harnett county contiane to maintain a lively In ter^ In the breeding and rais ing of work stock on their own fanns, Mye J. B. Gonrl^, oashK tent farm agent. ‘ ^ " ''T' w Heir SaiH|Gi|itioDS To The Journal-Patriot big drive is on to get every JOURNAL- PATRIOT reader a PAD-IN-ADVANCE sub- scriber, as required by the United States Postal Laws. We greatly appreciate the s^endid co operation of the many subscribers who have sent in their renewals. There are yet, how ever, some subscriptions in arrears, & we will be most appreciative if every reader will ^e that his subscription is paid in advance. It is the ONE aim of this newspaper to be of service to this section of North Carolma and to stand for what it believes to be of the best interest of the people it serves. THE JOURNAL-PATRIOT “Wilkes County’s Only Semi-Weekly Newspaper” —Published Mondays and Thursdays— -J x^Ay .-•» ■

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