t'. ■ _ Sn.*T22 y ■**“ -*• I«». attt* tdmliils- NaMwua jronth Ad- ■KMmfoii. T^bivoae of tlio oosference is to •Mlarlte the tradee ■•■aea -with recent tanoiTations ^jthft-fleTd of fewer operated ■••odworklng jnaohiaee. This la ef a aeries of oonterences to l^leld throughout the state un- Mr anspicea t t the NTA. Repre- ■antatlTea from the state and dls- IfTA offices will t>e present * wen as foremen front all near- '•y counties. P. Robinson, foreman of the •YA shop located la WUkes- •oro, plans to attend this confer ees. This shop eavtoTB forty fcys and Is sponaered by the Board of Ediucatisa. iUa. tst attMrtlsaf hidt:wtaltK fto Special Fund For Recondi* tioning Work To Be Dia- cuaaed With Governor BOnCE OF APPLICATION TO flTERATE MOTBB VEHICLE QXBBIER and DATE OF hearing THBSBMf Ai required by Steetton 3, Chap- Itt 13^ Pnblic Lawa ef 1927, no- ■ea ia hereby given that ap^ka- tidn Baa been made by S. & E. Sfaoafer Company, for a Fran- gfcise Certificate, authonaing the iteration of motor vehicles fori , ftanaporting freight between El- system particularly the Oa and North WUkeeboro over the surface treatment and the county pabHc highways via the interven- road system—until after weather tag towns of N. C.'268, via Ronda conditions are more favorable. andrlKecring River, and that the i “The damage as a result of the ^MKes Commission will hold a | heavy snows and extremely cold Haring on the said apMication in Slate Depts. Bldg., at Raleigh, on Taeadsy, I9th March, 1940, at Raleigh, Feb. 23.—Recent cold weather and snow caused dam ages totaling $2,332,322 to roads in North Carolina’s state and county highway system, W. Vance Raise, chief highway engineer, estimated today. Simultaneously, Highway Com mission Chairman Frank L. Dun- laip announced that he would con fer with Governor Hoey on the possibility of obtaining a special allotment to Improve the roads. Raise said his estimate was based on reports from the 10 highways division engneers. The combined reports showed damage to the state highway system was $938,005, of which $817,356 was on surfaced roads, and damage to the county highway system was $1,394,317, of which $301,310 was on paved roads. May Be Worse “In connection with this esti mate,’’ Raise said, "It should be understood that It Is impossible to estimate the real damage to the % 5 . 1 Mf«4|SSS3i m£. IftBD o’clock a. m. N-a .UTE.rriBs commission. O. SELF, Chief aerk. 22-26-29-3t VF its HOUSE OR LOT OR FARM FOR SALE OR BENT—Call or Phone . . . Absher Real Estate Co. —Phone 252— LIBERTY -ONLY- Feature No. THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER SPEAKS . . . TO ASK DID WE DIE IN VAIN? AMERIC.\ STAY OUT OF WAR? UNCENSORED “HITLER’S HIGHWAY TO HELl 2 BIG FEATURES He’d do anything for her! . . . True, but would he kill another girl to be free to marry her? mi MAN'S LIFE... AGAINST THE FArni OF MOmONS 99 “THE DEAD MARCH” An Hour of Realism—^A Life time of Remembrance DON’T MISS TVNO GItKAl' FEATURES NO ADVANCE IN PRICE THURSDAY ^FRIDAY MOST SPECTACULAR AD VENTURE SINCE "MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY'I Aen who Lived With Death And Danger...For The Women Who Hungered For Their love! NOimiW (BOOK I-ROGBW’ RANGERS) AND CAST OF THOUSANDS! ROBERT YOUNG WALTER BRENNAN • RUTH HUSSEY NAT PENDLETON SoM. PtoVby laimnc. jMiUliigi and I.lbot JanMngi n«toc.d fc» H.« • Olwc*.. Inr Kin* Vld« ■ Spencer Tracy and Ruth Husaey in “Northwest Passage I heavy snows and extremely i weather was aggravated to some extent by the continued rains which occurred recently. The fin al amount of the damage to the road system will depend to a con- I .siderable extent upon the type of weather which will exist during the next month.” j Raise said the damage to hard- I surfaced roads was much less I than during the winter of 1935- 3 6, because the roads last fall j were “in an excellent state of ' maintenance.’’ TUESDAY Spencer Tracy Is adding anoth er room to his own .HaU of Fame. The star, aside from delivering many of the screen’s finest per formances, Invariably leaves one scene in a motion picture which survives in memory for years, sometimes after the theme of the story Is forgotten. Such settings constitute Tracy’s Hall of Fame, to which he is now adding another room in “.Motrh- west Passage,’’ which is at the Liberty Theatre Thursday and Friday. Hollywood expects Tracy’s memorable scene in this picture to be that action In which he softly coaxes and persuades Rob ert Young, as the badly wounded Langdon Towne, to muster the fortitude to carry on the march under his own power because, much as he loves this .voung sol dier, Major Rogers kno-us he can not deviate from his hard rule t.hat it must b eevery man under his own piwer and the faltering left behind. Rivaling this scene for memor able Tracy one is his throe-min ute talk to his men as he attempts to convince them not Lo give up at the moment when they are starving. According to critics, ’iTacy’s firryt room In hia Hall of BUme was the scene on the stage for ‘"The Last Mile” when convicts went 'berserk under his leader ship as lights dimmed to indicate the electric chair had snuffed out another life. Other Big Eeenes Ahong his other “rooms” were: the sequences in “The Show Off” where he was proved just a big bluff; his riot scene In “Fury’’; that scene In “San Francisco” where he reveals to Jeanette Mac Donald his boyhood days with the notorious atheist, Blackie Norton, played by Clark Gable; his noisy scene in “Libeled Lady” with Jean Harlow, when she, as his bride-to-be, threatens to run out on him; the interior of the circus wagon In “They Gave Him a Gun” where Tracy faces Franchot 'Pone, as the coward with a gun; his courageous death scene In “Captains Courageous”; his death in glory in “Test Pilot”; and the scene in “Boys Town” where, as Father Flanagan, he finds Mickey Rooney, wounded by gangsters, seeking refuge in the silent church. Residential Building Gains In Carolina Raleigh, Feb. 20. — Building construction authorized in 21 North Carolina cities during Jan uary was worth $1,143,001, a drop of 30.6 per cent under the January, 1939, total, but residen tial building Increased 26.4 per cent over a year ago. The labor department released the report today. It showed that January permits were down 51.7 per cent from December, 1939. Charlotte's January total was .$529,605, being followed by $100,071 for Winston-Salem. A- mong smaller cities. Hickory led with permits issued for $17,150 worth of work and Lumberlon 'tail .$ 16,250. l"AY>fE.Vrs The r. S. Department of Agri culture will begin distributing $22.5.tioo.00(1 in parity payments within n tew weeks to producers of wheat, cotton, coni and rice who cooperate in the AAA pro gram. Use the advertising columns of this paper as your shopping guide. ADMINISTRATRIX’S NOTICE Having qualified as Administra trix of the estate of Noah E. Brown, late of Wilkes county, N. C., this is to notify all persons laving claims against said estate to present them to the undersign ed, whose address is North Wilkes- boro, N. C., duly verified, on or be fore the 2nd day of February, 1941, or this notice will be plead in bar of their right to recover. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate settle ment. "This 2nd dav of February. 1940. LILLIAN BROWN, Administratrix of the estate of Noah E. Brown, dec’d. 11 4-6t. (m) ~T^'1CE OF LAND SALE Under and by virtue of an order of the Superior Court of Wilkes County, entitled “Wilkes County vs. Virginia-Carolina Mica Cor poration,” the undersigned Com missioner will, on the IBth day of March, 1940, at 12 o’clock noon at the Courthouse door in Wilkcs- boro, North Carolina, offer for sale- to the highest liidder for cash that certain tract or lot of land lying and being in Elk Township, Wilkes County, North Carolina, and bounded as follows: Being situated in the county above-named, containing. 100 acres, more or less, lying on the waters of Elk Creek: Beginning at a _ pine, Dula’s South comer, running North 20 poles to a pine; thence East 130 poles to a locust; thence South 100 poles to a stake; thence West 120 poles to a stake; thence North 80 poles to a stake in Dula’s line; thence East to the beginning. 'This the 12th day of February, 1940. F. J. McDUFFIE, Commissioner. 3-4-4t. Buttons covered with cloth were prohibited In England in 1721. ''VT^S- MONDAT, IKBt B0» ^ . f Stated FalnBhm,-F«h. 2D.— tratlon oc r«*oare«8f* Is HMdqd (e correet liwd road conditions caus ed by recent weather. A.. J. Max well, gubernatorial candidate, said here tonight in a talk before the Fairmont Rotary club. “Thle worst winter weather in years is putting the'spotllght on the weakeet point In North Caro lina’s social and economic struc tures, Its dirt roads, serving Im portant communities that become completely Empassable In ' bad weather,” he said. “"rhousands of our rural popu lation have been cut off from markets, sobools and churches. I have Just learned of one commun ity that recently lost 1,600 gal lons of milk because of Impass able roads. Slmiilar conditlous ob tain In many sections of the state.” NOTICE ^ „ By virtue of an Order of 'die Su perior Court of Wilkes '../oun^, Mrs. Mary G. Pollard, and hM- band, B. P. Pollard, J. H. Greenlee, Mrs. ESla Ogilvie, and husband, Archie Ogilvie, F. Miller, and wife, Bettie Miller, W. W. Finley, a^ wife, Malissa Finley, Mrs. Ruth C. Finley, Anna Clementina Finley, Ruth Finley, Margarat G. Fin ley Atwater, and husband, Charles Atwater, and S. G. FTnl^, Jr., and wife, Elna L. Finley, Ex Parte, appointing the undersigned Commissioners to sell the Iw^ de scribed in the Petition, Order of Sale, and hereinafter described, either at public or private sale in their discretion for the purpose of partitioning' the proceeds among the parties above named; The undersigned Conunissionere will on "Tuesday, March 26th, 194^ at two o’clock P. M. at the House door in Wilkesboro sell at public auction to the highest bid der for cash, selling said lands as a whole or in parcels as they nmy deem best, said lands being de scribed as follows: _ First tract: Lying and being on theVWest side of Reddies River, North of the North Wilkesboro Plant, Gordon Industrial Com pany, the lands of E. G. Finley, and East of United States Highway 421. Containing H5.o acres, and bounded as follows: Be^nning on a leaning pine stump in the line of the original tract of Mrs. S. A. Finley, deceas ed, corner of lands sold by the Commissioners herein to E. G. an.l R. G. Finley, and running West with the outside boundary of the original ‘tract, the following courses and distances, West 825 feet to a White Oak, North 35 de grees West 628 feet..to a -j^ite Oak, North 13 degrees West 610.5 fet to a White Oak, North 27 de grees West 594 feet to White Oak, North 38 degrees jWest 397 feet to a .stake comer of a four acre tract heretofore sold; fnence leaving the original outside line, and running with the line of said four acre tract North 33 degrees 15 minutes East 1124 feet to a stake in the original outside line; then:e East with the original outside line 848 feet to a stake, mmer of lands , Jii Rttpovi " mXoty, WVb. 28. — /erne (Boib) UmI, Mcro, employed in Wauhthgton, wired hie family here Thursday that be was “very much alire” and thus halted tu- neral arrangements being made for him. In a telefphone convenatlon with another Hickory negro who Is In Washington, a local negro understood that James Deal had been killed when struck by a street car. , The parents, Noah and Etta Deal, were told the sad news and a funeral home was asked to make arrangements for the body to be brought to Hickory. "The parents were overjoyed to learn that the rumor of their son’s death was groundless. DItte 111 . GoidsborO, Feb. S D. Vslentine, 32, BStiTe of' county, wss instantly killed ly this morning in aa Mtomohtl*' traek accident near Portsmaatli, ^ Va. RelstiTee here were informed that while ‘Mr. Valentine 'was re- ‘ turning to his hmne in PorUh month from Suffolk bebween 12 and 1 a. m. his car struck a large moving van that was 'porksd by the side of the road. Use the advertlslsg columns of this paper as your shopping guide Uae the admtiaiDg cofaunns of this paper ae your ahoi^faig guide, SAMPSON’S- S. C. R. FOR DISO(»fFOBTB DUE TO COLDS—COUGHS 4$ NCmCE SERVING SUMMONS BY PUBLIC.ATlOX North Carolina, Wilkes County. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT Western Auto Supply Company, Incorporated v.s. J. U. Tait, Trading as Western Auto Associate Store, Home Owned By. leet lo a sw»>ic, The defendant, J. U. Tait, Trad- formerly sold to Town of Ntjrth ing as VVestern Auto As.sociate Wilkesboro; thence with the iitie Store, Home Owned By, will take of the Town of North Wilkesboro notice than an action entitled as the following courses and distan- aliove has been commenced in the ces; South 33 degrees 50 minutes Superior Court of Wilkes County, East 1023 feet to a stafe, South North Carolina, for the purpose of 68 degi'ees 39 minutes East 174, obtaining judgment against the feet to a stake, South 42 degrees | defendant in the sum of $2,023.96 and 39’ minutes East 173 feet to a with interest thereon from the 3rd stake, South 28 degrees ^2 minutes day of February, 1940, for nier- East 929 feet to a stake, Niyth 54 chandise sold and delivered to the degrees 3 minutes East 260 raet to plaintiff, and the said defendant the thread of Reddies River; will further take notice that he is thence a Southeast course with the required to appear at the office of thread of Reddies Rover to the the Clerk of the Superior Court in jjne of the lands heretofore sold by the courthouse in Wilkesboro, N. the Commissioners herein to E. G. C., within thirty days after the and R. G. Finley; thence with their 19 1 day of February, 1940, and (land South 78 degrees 3 minutes an.-iwer or demur to the complaint West 100 feet to a stake near the in said action, or the plaintiff will West bank of said river; thence apply to the Court for the relief|with said line South 83 degrees' demanded in said complaint, which-15 minutes West .1424 feet to the| is now" filed in the office of the (point of beginning. j Clerk of the Superior Court of: Second tract: Lying on the, Wilkes County. (West side of Reddies River> ^ndj This the 19th dav of Feb., 1940. on the South side "f United States | C. C. HAYES, Clerk of Highway 421, and containing 42 'acres of valuable River Bottom,' underneath is a strata of valuable; brick and potter’s clay, known as, the Mrs. S. A. Finley’s Bottom, Farm, and bounded as follows: Beginning at triple Cherry, comer of original tra.t, and Caro line L. Hackett’s tract on the Northwest margin — Drive, and running with the ori ginal line of Mrs. S. A. Finley’s tract. South,' 30 degrees 20 min utes East. 1560.9 feet to an iron stake, comer of A. A. Fm’®y Heirs: thence with the line of A. A Finlev Heirs, North 53 degrees 20 minutes East 700 feet to a W^- nut, on the West bank of Reddies River; thence a Northwest course with the thread of Reddies River outside the line of original ooun-1 'dary to the North margin of U. S. Highway 421, comer of E. G. and! R. G. Finley; thence with the North margin of said U. S. High- the Superior Court, Wilkes County. 3-ll-4t. (m) NOTICE OF SALE OF LAND By virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain deed of trust executed on the 13th day of|‘“‘'= ^- »»;ii March,. 1939, l,y James R. Pearson Northwest M and wife, Nellie Pearson, to the undersized trustee, said deed of trust being to secure the payment of a certain note, which note is pa.st due and unpaid, and request having been made upon me by the holder of said note, the undersigpi- ed trustee will expose to sale at public auction at the courthouse door in Wilkesboro, North Caro lina, on the 25th day of March, 1940, at twelve o’clock, noon, to the highest bidder for cash the following described tract of land, said sale being made to satisfy said note and deed of trust, and ,Tu "Sv" Heo-vees “30 said land lying and being in Wilkes 8^?” fettf thence acTbeda^dXed^aSwv^ S»'>th 79 degrees 45 BBGiSwJg o? a wSrgum. minutes West 100 feet; thence John Barnes’ comer; thence runn ing Northeast to a dogwood on the Chinquepin Ridge; thence running a North Course to Nancy Par sons’ line; then West to Dula’s line; thence with Dula’s' line to lIllllULCa ww 7 crossing said Highway South 4/ degrees 50 minutes West 98.6 feet to the Northwest margin of Cotton Mill Drive; thence with the North- \vgst margin of Cotton Mill .Drive South 67 degrees 47 minutes line; tnence witn tmias line to Laws’ line; then.with the Laws West 100 feet to tak . h line to Barnes’ line: then with Barnes’ line to the beginning, con taining 100 acres, more or less. This being the same land con veyed by Deed from G. ,'W. Earp to B. G. Earp, recorded in Book 19, Page 332, in the Register of Deeds’ office of Wilkes County. This the 24th day of February, 1940. ELEANOR SMOA^ Trustee 3-18-4t f(m) with same South 66 degrees 15 minutes West- 242 feet to the be ginning. See Map of K. M. Allen, C. Eu for full description, both tracts. , „ „ , "This the 23rd day of February, 1940 B. F. POLLARD, W. C. GRIER, Commissioners. By Chas. G. Gilreath, Attorney . 3-18-4t 2% Penalty On 1939 County Taxes If Payment Is Not Made On Or Before March 1st, 1940 Pay Your 1939 Taxes Now And Save This 2% Penalty. C. T. Doughton, SHERIFF OF WILKES COUNTY I Am Your Budget's Best Friend" V “The modern housewife wi operating her home on o budget finds that i am her budget's friend. I sove her money in so mony ways. I cook her meals electrically and preserve the delicious flavors of her food and prevent shrinkage in meats thus making the some food go much farther. I furnish her with electrical refrigeration which pre serves left-overs, eliminates spoilage, gives her plenty of ice and a great variety of delectable frozen desserts as well as health protection tor the whole tomi'y. I do her washing, ironing, sweeping, heating water, bringing proper light, playing the radio and doing on endless variety of odd jobs in the home. My wages ore insignificant ... in fact in the average American home I get less than 9c a day . . . just a trifle for the amount of work I do. Don't you think so?" Your Friend and Servant, Reddy Kilowatt POWER COMPANY “Electricity Is Cheap—Use It Adequately” Phone 420 North Wilkesboro, N. C.