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”
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time of Remembrance
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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.